Thorne House
THORNE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345736
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorne House
- Statutory Address:
- THORNE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345736
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorne House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNE 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:
- THORNE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brympton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52627 17779
Details
ST51NW BRYMPTON D'EVERCY CP THORNE COFFIN 3/46 Thorne House - GV II Large detached house. Dated 1882, by Sir T G Jackson: parts of the northern section could be earlier. Ham stone ashlar to south and west; plain clay tiled Mansard roofs with coped gables; ashlar chimney stacks. In a neo-Elizabethan style: west elevation 2 storeys with attic, 3 gabled bays with projecting central porch. Plinth, string courses, moulded coped gables of various fores with ball and obelisk finials on plinths: ovolo mould mullioned windows with transomes: to bay 1 an angled 2-storey bay of 1+3+1 lights with stepped stone roof; to bays 1 and 2 are 4-light windows without transomes or labels to attic; to bay 3 a central projecting chimney stack with offsets, no ground floor windows, but 2-light windows either side of stack to first floor and single lights to attic; projecting porch has moulded semi-circular outer arch and 3-light first floor window, between these being a carved panel with initials JLH and date 1882; cambered arched inner doorway with part glazed doors. South front has 2 projecting square bays with Dutch gables, and the 2+1+3+1+3 light windows have 4-centre arched and transomed lights, with pilasters to first floor on corbels, developed into Ionic capitals at attic level. On north side are some 16-pane sash windows of early C19 pattern, and to north east corner a later two-storey 3-bay block. Interior not seen. (Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5262717779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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