Thorns Hall and Attached Stable Wing to Rear
THORNS HALL AND ATTACHED STABLE WING TO REAR, LONG LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384176
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Thorns Hall and Attached Stable Wing to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- THORNS HALL AND ATTACHED STABLE WING TO REAR, LONG LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384176
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Thorns Hall and Attached Stable Wing to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNS HALL AND ATTACHED STABLE WING TO REAR, LONG LANE
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:
- THORNS HALL AND ATTACHED STABLE WING TO REAR, LONG LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 66368 92158
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6692 LONG LANE
162-1/17/318 (North side)
16/03/54 Thorns Hall and attached stable wing
to rear
(Formerly Listed as:
SOOLBANK
Thorns Hall)
II*
Large house with attached stable wing to rear; now hotel.
Probably early to mid C17, enlarged and altered in C19. Mixed
random rubble with quoins, roof of green and blue slate.
Single-depth 3-unit main range on east-west axis, with
projecting porch, rear outshut to 1st bay and part of 2nd, C19
additions to west end and rear; stable wing attached to rear
of west end.
EXTERIOR: the main range, 2 storeys and attic, 2:1:2 windows,
has a large 2-storey gabled porch offset right of centre. This
has a restored round-headed doorway, a C19 12-pane sash above,
and gable coping with kneelers and a finial; a 2-light
double-chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould in each
side wall, and a blocked similar window above that in the
right-hand side. Behind and above the porch is a gabled attic
dormer which has a 2-light chamfered flush mullion window with
diamond leaded panes, and a ball finial. The other windows are
C19: a 12-pane sash on each floor to the right of the porch,
and large tripartite hornless sashes elsewhere. Large extruded
chimney at left gable, with re-built shaft; C19 chimneys to
front wall to right and at right-hand gable. Set back at the
left end is a C19 2-storey wing with two 12-pane sashes on
each floor, and a pyramidal roof. Rear: outshut to west end,
under catslide roof, has 2-light mullioned window at cellar
level, and a blocked window to right of that. Former stable
range (linked to rear of C19 west wing), of coursed rubble
with quoins, stone slate roof, 2 storeys, with a stone slate
dripcourse over each floor, has (inter alia) a wagon doorway
near the left end and 3 stable doorways near the right-hand
end, all segmental-headed with rubble voussoirs; and slit
breathers at 1st floor.
INTERIOR: hall has C17 muntin-and-rail panelled partition to
service end, and a large chamfered beam; open-well
quarter-turn staircase with closed string, square newels,
turned balusters and moulded handrail; parlour completely
wainscotted with muntin-and-rail panelling and intersecting
arcaded frieze; chamber over parlour with C18
bolection-moulded panelling (part recently moved to enclose en
suite facilities); roof of 6 principal-rafter trusses, the
principals half-lapped at the apex, with angle struts, and
including some re-used elements of a very substantial
timber-framed building.
HISTORICAL NOTE: occupied in C19 by members of the Elam family
(wall monuments in Church of St John the Evangelist, Dent,
qv).
Listing NGR: SD6636892158
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484608
- 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.
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