Former Burton in Lonsdale Endowed First School: Schoolmaster's House and garden wall and gate piers
Thornton Lodge, Burton in Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 3JZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301402
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Burton in Lonsdale Endowed First School: Schoolmaster's House and garden wall and gate piers
- Statutory Address:
- Thornton Lodge, Burton in Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 3JZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301402
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Burton in Lonsdale Endowed First School: Schoolmaster's House and garden wall and gate piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- Thornton Lodge, Burton in Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 3JZ
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Thornton Lodge, Burton in Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 3JZ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton in Lonsdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD6481072289
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/03/2020
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BURTON IN LONSDALE
Thornton Lodge
Former Burton in Lonsdale Endowed First School: Schoolmaster's House and garden wall and gate piers
(Formerly listed as Burton in Lonsdale Endowed First School: Schoolmaster's House and garden wall and gate piers, BURTON IN LONSDALE)
II
Formerly schoolmaster's and schoolmistress's houses, now one house. 1853. Ashlar, slate roof. Gable end to street. Symmetrical composition, two storeys, four bays. Two entrances, former master's to left and mistress's to right, both with single-storey projecting porches. Tudor arched head to moulded surround and moulded stepped parapet; plank door to left, glazed to right. Two ground floor three-light cavetto mullioned windows; fixed lights. Upper floor sill band with panel below inscribed:
ERECTED AND ENDOWED AT THE SOLE EXPENCE OF/RICHARD THORNTON ESQ/ OF THE CITY OF LONDON MERCHANT/ ANNO DOMINI 1851;/TO COMMEMORATE THE PLACE OF HIS NATIVITY,/ AND FOR THE FUTURE BENEFIT OF/ THE POOR CHILDREN OF BURTON,/AND THORNTON IN LONSDALE
On upper floor are two outer single light windows with cavetto jambs and splayed sills, and two similar but two-light windows; casements. In centre is round headed niche with moulded surround containing bust of Thornton on octagonal pedestal. In gable is panel inscribed: THORNTON'S/ SCHOOL/FOUNDED AD 1853
Flanked by two small trefoil breathers to roof space. Corbelled sexagonal finial to gable. Gable is stepped to left and right with animal gargoyle on left and right hand return. To left is gable end of boys' school: two-light lancet window with recessed panel above inscribed 'PERSEVERANCE'. Gargoyle in form of winged animal and fleur-de-lis finial to gable. To right is gable end of girls' school in similar style with panel inscribed 'INDUSTRY'.
Garden walls and gate piers of rock faced masonry and ashlar coping. Retaining wall to garden has four octagonal pillars and two pillars at base of steps. Four similar gate piers at entrance to boys' school and master's house, with a similar arrangement to the mistress's house, linked by a wall fronting the road.
Listing NGR: SD6481072289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324103
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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