Thornhill House
THORNHILL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324460
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Thornhill House
- Statutory Address:
- THORNHILL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324460
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Thornhill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNHILL HOUSE
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.
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:
- THORNHILL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stalbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7404914986
Details
ST 71 SW
3/57
STALBRIDGE
THORNHILL
Thornhill House
4.10.60
II*
Country House, c1730, with late C18 and C19 alterations. For the painter
Thornhill, probably by himself. Rendered with ashlar dressings, hipped stone
slate roof. 2 storeys and attic. North facade: 'Palladian', symmetrical,
1:3:1. All windows are wooden sashes with glazing bars. Central 3 bays project
slightly and have rusticated quoins and a pediment. The central doorway has a
rusticated surround with a large keystone. Above is a flat entablature supported
on consoles. The central bay on the first floor has a large round headed window
flanked by Doric pilasters supporting a moulded archivolt with keystone. Bays
2 and 4 have swags of drapery above the upper floor windows. There are rectangular
panels above the upper floor windows in bays 1 and 5 and the pediment contains a
bull's eye window. The eaves are overhanging and have a moulded cornice. The east
facade is of 7 bays with ashlar quoins and a projecting C19 central bay, which is
of squared dressed stone. 1:2:1:2:1. Bays 1, 4 and 7 project from the facade
presenting hipped gables to the front. At ground floor level bays 1 and 7 have wooden
sashes with glazing bars under segmental arches with stone labels. Bays 2, 3,
5 and 6 have C19 'Tudor perpendicular' 3-light stone mullioned windows with hollow
chamfers. On the first floor all windows except bays 4 and 5 have wooden sashes
with glazing bars in moulded ashlar surrounds with square stone labels. Bay 5
has a C20 casement window with no glazing bars. The central bay has a mullioned
and transomed ashlar stone window with horizontal glazing bars in a moulded ashlar
surround with a square label. Above each bay is a C19 hipped dormer with 3-light
wooden casements with glazing bars. The central double plank door is set under
a 4-centred ashlar arch and has moulded ashlar surrounds and a square label.
Internally the house is much altered, the staircase and stair hall being additions.
The first floor library has a c1730 wooden fireplace with caryatid jambs possibly
designed by Thornhill himself. Some rooms have moulded skirtings, dado rails and
cornices and there are some late C 18 features including a door and fireplaces.
'RCHM, Dorset, Vol III', HMSO, 1970, p249-50, no.3.
Listing NGR: ST7404914986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102372
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 249-250
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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