Thorlby House

Thorlby House, Thorlby House Road, Stirton, Skipton, BD23 3GF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1301463
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Thorlby House
Statutory Address:
Thorlby House, Thorlby House Road, Stirton, Skipton, BD23 3GF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1301463
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Thorlby House
Statutory Address 1:
Thorlby House, Thorlby House Road, Stirton, Skipton, BD23 3GF

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Thorlby House, Thorlby House Road, Stirton, Skipton, BD23 3GF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Stirton with Thorlby
National Grid Reference:
SD 97474 53241

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 February 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SD 95 SE
7/13

STIRTON WITH THORLBY
THORLBY HOUSE ROAD
Thorlby House

(Formerly listed as Thorlby House, BOG LANE (east side)


II
Large house, mid-late C18, altered c1840 with late C19 and C20 alterations. Square stone, rendered roughcast, sandstone dressings, slate roof. Greek revival style. C18 wing with projecting c1840 entrance block to right. Entrance front: two storeys, three bays. Right-hand entrance has Greek Ionic portico, pulvinated frieze, pediment with modillions; four-panel door with dentilled lintel, and fanlight. On ground floor French window with moulded surround, late C19 casements. Upper floor sill band and two upper floor windows with moulded surrounds; four pane sashes. Projecting modillioned cornice. Projecting quoins, left-hand eaves stack. Left-hand return contains two storey bow window with three lights to each storey. On ground floor are two engaged pilasters and two Ionic columns in antis; decorated modillions. Upper floor sill band and moulded surrounds to windows. Sashes without glazing bars on ground floor, sashes with glazing bars on upper floor. To left are recessed four bays of C18 house, refronted c1840 with two c1910 bay windows to ground floor, probably by Perkin & Bulmer. Cast iron verandah of late C19 with Composite capitals to four pillars.

Interior: mid C19 architraves to round-headed arch from entrance hall to stair, now with mid C20 two-leaf doors. Elaborate mid C19 plasterwork on ceiling of entrance hall and drawing room. Stone geometrical stair -with moulded cast iron balusters and wreathed handrail. Plan of house in entrance hall by James Hartley of Skipton, 1926, copied from plan by Perkin & Bulmer, 1911.

Listing NGR: SD9747453241

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
323984
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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