THORPE HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1346645
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: THORPE HALL
Statutory Address:: THORPE HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1346645
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: THORPE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: THORPE HALL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THORPE HALL

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

District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rudston
National Grid Reference:: TA 10929 67675

Details

TA 16 NW RUDSTON THORPE HALL

10/54 Thorpe Hall 11.1.52 GV II*

Country House. Mid C17 origins, main block c1740, wings late C18, extensive additions to right in same character in late C19. Stucco, roughcast, brick with stone dresings, slate roofs. Main block of 3 storeys and basement, 5 bays arranged 2:1:2. Chamfered plinth, rusticated quoins. Central C19 porch with Tuscan portico to main door with fanlight in round-headed surround with pilasters, moulded capitals and keyblock. Side windows to porch with intersecting glazing bars in round-headed architraves with key-block under moulded cornice and coped parapet. Centre bay breaks forward slightly above porch under semi- circular pediment with scrolls and giant shell motif. Round-headed sash door to balcony over porch with intersecting glazing bars in rectangular surround, enriched with circles, under moulded cornice. Second floor window has 16-pane sash in stone surround with projecting key-block. Ground and first floor windows elsewhere have 15-pane sashes in wooden surrounds with stone sills and moulded cornices. Second floor has sashes with glazing bars in wooden surrounds with stone sills, wedge lintels, and iron railings. Moulded cornice. Coped pilastered parapet. Double end-stacks with strainer arches, hipped roof. Wings have chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins. French windows with glazing bars and 8-pane lights over to ground floor, first floor band, 16-pane sashes with stone sills to first floor. Moulded cornice, coped parapet, hipped roofs. Interior has several early features. Two 3-light flat- headed windows with chamfered mullions in the basement indicate the presence of an earlier house on the site. The long gallery in the ground floor of the east wing has plaster frieze, cornice, and ceiling in the Adam style. Elsewhere most internal features are of c1820: 6-panel doors in fluted architraves with roundels and rosettes, fireplaces with fluted surrounds and roundels and rosettes, and a main staircase with cut string, slender turned balusters, and heavy moulded handrail, the latter perhaps re-used. Late C19 west wing not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TA1092967675

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 166830
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.