THORNLEY HOUSE AND COTTAGE AT LEFT

THORNLEY HOUSE AND COTTAGE AT LEFT, A 181

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323190
Date first listed:: 28-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: THORNLEY HOUSE AND COTTAGE AT LEFT
Statutory Address:: THORNLEY HOUSE AND COTTAGE AT LEFT, A 181

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323190
Date first listed:: 28-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: THORNLEY HOUSE AND COTTAGE AT LEFT
Statutory Address 1:: THORNLEY HOUSE AND COTTAGE AT LEFT, A 181

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THORNLEY HOUSE AND COTTAGE AT LEFT, A 181

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shincliffe
National Grid Reference:: NZ 30747 41601

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/07/2015

NZ 3041 12/81

SHINCLIFFE, A 181 (East side, off), Sherburn Hospital Thornley House and cottage at left

(Formerly listed as Sherburn Hospital and Chapel in Sherburn House C.P.)

28/2/52

GV II

Range of Elderly Persons' dwellings, c.1760 with c.1896 cottage at left (all known as Thornley House). Tooled dressed sandstone and graduated stone-tiled roofs. Cottage has ashlar walls and chimney stacks. Rebuilt brick stacks on main range. Tudor-style cottage.

Long linear main range in 2 sections: one storey, 11 bays at right; 2 storeys, 6 bays at left. Low plinth. Openings in raised flat-faced surrounds, some renewed. Single-storey range has doorway in fifth bay, blocked doorway near right end bay, late C20 top-hung casements and steeply-pitched roof with overhanging eaves and 4 old-brick ridge stacks. The fifth bay doorway has an impressive medieval timber and stamped ironwork door stylistically dated to the late C13, probably reused from the medieval hall that once stood on the site. 2-storey section, with entrances on rear, has similar casements, in square openings on first floor, and steeply-pitched roof with 4 tall ridge stacks.

Single-storey, 3-bay cottage at right-angles on left has chamfered plinth. Moulded Tudor-arched doorway at right. Small double-chamfered, ovolo-mullioned window in centre bay and single-light window at left, both set close to eaves. Steeply-pitched roof with overhanging eaves. Coped left gable parapet with finials on footstones and a truncated ridge stack. Tall corniced ridge stack at right. Small slightly-domed pyramidal roof, rising from main roof at junction between cottage and 2-storey range. Side facing main road has similar 3-light windows.

Added gabled wing, with lower c.1896 range at right-angles, on centre rear of single-storey range.

Altered L-plan range on left rear of 2-storey section is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3074741601

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 109962
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.