Thorpe Farmhouse And Adjacent Outbuildings

Thorpe Farmhouse and adjacent outbuildings date from the mid-18th century and are possibly the work of Thomas Robinson. The farmhouse features tooled ashlar stonework, except for the coursed rubble on the rear elevation, while the outbuildings are constructed from squared stone and topped with graduated stone slate roofs.

The south elevation of the farmhouse is two storeys high and has three symmetrical bays. It includes a plinth, giant round-arched recesses that frame a central six-panel door with a four-pane overlight in a corniced architrave, and twelve-pane sash windows. The lower windows have flat-arched lintels, while the upper ones have segmental-arched heads. A band runs along the top of the arches and forms the sills of the upper windows. The eaves cornice is hollow-chamfered, and the roof is hipped with tall stepped-and-banded lateral stacks. On either side of the house, there are single-storey outbuildings with hip-ended roofs and no openings.

The rear elevation features a central six-panel door with a four-pane overlight, sixteen-pane sash windows on the ground floor, and twelve-pane shorter sashes above, with all openings framed in stone. The left outbuilding has a boarded door and a sixteen-pane sash, while the right outbuilding has boarded double doors.

Inside, the farmhouse has doors with six fielded panels, including those in the rear passage that have tall overlights and panelled shutters. The west ground floor room contains a fireplace with a moulded stone surround and fluted keystone, a chair rail, and a built-in cupboard with fluted pilasters and a dentil cornice. The west rear room was formerly a police lock-up and features a door with an observation panel. The cellar includes old stone wine bins. The dogleg open-string staircase has two urn-on-vase balusters per tread, a bulb-and-umbrella newel, and a moulded ramped handrail. There is also a dogleg closed-string back stair with square newels and stick balusters. The roof features four queen-post trusses and three levels of purlins, with tusk tenons.