THORNS HALL AND ATTACHED STABLE WING TO REAR

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
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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Official list entry

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

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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Statutory Address:: THORNS HALL AND ATTACHED STABLE WING TO REAR, LONG LANE

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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

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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.