Thornley House And Cottage At Left

Thornley House and the cottage to the left are a range of elderly persons' dwellings built around 1760, with a cottage added around 1896. The buildings are constructed from tooled dressed sandstone and feature graduated stone-tiled roofs. The cottage has ashlar walls and chimney stacks, while the main range has rebuilt brick stacks.

The main range is long and linear, divided into two sections: a single-storey section with 11 bays on the right and a two-storey section with 6 bays on the left. It has a low plinth and openings with raised flat-faced surrounds, some of which have been renewed. The single-storey section has a doorway in the fifth bay, a blocked doorway near the right end bay, late 20th-century top-hung casements, and a steeply-pitched roof with overhanging eaves and four old-brick ridge stacks. The fifth bay doorway features an impressive medieval timber door with stamped ironwork, stylistically dated to the late 13th century, likely reused from a medieval hall that once stood on the site. The two-storey section has entrances at the rear and similar casements in square openings on the first floor, along with a steeply-pitched roof and four tall ridge stacks.

The single-storey cottage at the left is three bays wide and set at right angles to the main range. It has a chamfered plinth and a moulded Tudor-arched doorway on the right. The centre bay features a small double-chamfered, ovolo-mullioned window, and there is a single-light window on the left, both positioned close to the eaves. The cottage has a steeply-pitched roof with overhanging eaves, a coped left gable parapet with finials on footstones, and a truncated ridge stack. There is also a tall corniced ridge stack on the right and a small slightly-domed pyramidal roof at the junction between the cottage and the two-storey range. The side facing the main road has similar three-light windows.

An added gabled wing, which is a lower range built around 1896, is located at right angles to the centre rear of the single-storey range. The altered L-plan range at the left rear of the two-storey section is not of special interest.