Thorpe Farmhouse And Adjacent Outbuildings

NZ 01 SE WYCLIFFE WITH THORPE A66 (North side)

6/187 Thorpe Farmhouse 12.1.67 and adjacent outbuildings

GV II*

House and outbuildings. Mid-C18, perhaps by Thomas Robinson. House tooled ashlar except for coursed rubble rear elevation, outbuildings squared stone; graduated stone slate roofs.

South elevation 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Plinth. Giant round-arched recesses enclosing central 6-panel door with 4-pane overlight in corniced architrave, and 12-pane sash windows, the lower with flat-arched lintels and the upper with segmental-arched heads; band forming imposts of arches and sills of upper windows. Hollow-chamfered eaves cornice. Hipped roof; tall stepped-and-banded lateral stacks. Set back to each side is a single-storey outbuilding, without openings; hip-ended roofs.

Rear elevation shows central 6-panel door with 4-pane overlight, 16-pane ground floor sashes and 12-pane shorter sashes (one renewed) above; all openings in stone surrounds, the door with a moulded cornice. Left outbuilding shows boarded door and 16-pane sash, right outbuilding boarded double doors.

Interior: Doors of 6 fielded panels, those in rear passage with tall overlights; panelled shutters. West ground floor room has fireplace in moulded stone surround with fluted keystone, chair rail and built-in cupboard with fluted pilasters and dentil cornice. West rear room was former police lock-up; door with observation panel. Cellar with old stone wine bins. Dogleg open-string stair with 2 urn-on-vase balusters per tread, bulb-and- umbrella newel and moulded ramped handrail. Dogleg closed-string back stair with square newels and stick balusters. Roof has 4 queen-post trusses; 3 levels of purlins, with tusk tenons.

Listing NGR: NZ0939012716