Thornton Farmhouse
THORNTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324540
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Thornton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THORNTON FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324540
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Thornton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNTON FARMHOUSE
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:
- THORNTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marnhull
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 80485 18030
Details
ST 81 NW MARNHULL
5/86 Thornton Farmhouse 4.10.60 - II
Farmhouse. Probably C17 in origin with rebuilding of the C18 and a cross wing of the C19. Squared, coursed rubble and ashlar. Hipped and gabled slate roofs with brick stacks at various locations. 2/3 storeys, irregular fenestration. South wall has 2 stone mullioned windows of 3-lights the lower one having a returned label. North front has 3-light C18 stone mullioned windows. Wide south wooden plank door under wooden lintel. C19 wing has some sashes and some casements with leaded-lights. Panelled door with flat hood. C19 wing has chamfered plinth and moulded cornice. The house has a large moat and is all that remains of the settlement of Thornton, once a separate parish. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 159-160, no 61.
Listing NGR: ST8048518030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102713
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 159-160
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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