THORNS COTTAGE

THORNS COTTAGE, THORNS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384220
Date first listed:: 03-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: THORNS COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: THORNS COTTAGE, THORNS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384220
Date first listed:: 03-Apr-1990
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: THORNS COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THORNS COTTAGE, THORNS 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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Location

Statutory Address:: THORNS COTTAGE, THORNS 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 66386 92238

Details

SEDBERGH

SD6692 THORNS LANE 162-1/17/329 (East side) 03/04/90 Thorns Cottage (Formerly Listed as: Thorns Cottage)

II

House. c1700, much altered in 1896-7 (datestones). Various local stones, roughly coursed; stone slab roof. PLAN: formerly a laithe house, the house of 2 units, with a central cross passage, the laithe undergoing some alterations at time of inspection (February 1990). To this was added a south porch and a storeyed porch to the north, all in a picturesque "medieval" style. EXTERIOR: south (garden) front of house, 2 storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical, the centre projected to form a storeyed porch with curved angles, stepped parapet with coping and cornice band, rustic Venetian window to 1st floor, the doorway under a shaped stone canopy, deeply-recessed side windows under round-headed arches, the whole porch oddly detailed with careful use of varied coloured stone. Side bays with mullioned 3- and 2-light casement windows to ground and first floors respectively, the mullions corbelled to support slightly projecting top lights. Chimneys at both ends of house, both with moulded caps and that to the left, perhaps originally corbelled but now external throughout. Rear: storeyed wing crenellated with diagonally placed corner turret; irregularly-disposed windows, one (to north) with pointed arch. To the west, in the angle of the wing and the main range, is a small attached round tower. The rear wall of the main range has 3 windows in deep reveals, and eaves with shaped stone corbels. Laithe (barn) with simple windows in stone surrounds (presumably early C19 insertions). INTERIOR: refurbished 1897 in eccentric style: much panelling and planking to walls, some set diagonally and herringbone fashion; panelled and coffered ceilings, that to the entrance hall with moulded and chamfered beams. Stairs with green ironwork railings which rise to form an open dome over the stairwell. First-floor rooms all similarly treated, one with an internal porch in free C17 style. The designs are highly unusual, especially for Cumbria, and may well be the work of the late-C19 owner, T Hewetson.

Listing NGR: SD6638692238

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Legacy System number:: 484653
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.