Low Farmhouse 2 Farm Cottages And Adjoining Outbuildings

STAINTON AND THORNTON ROAD, NZ 41 SE (4713) THORNTON east side.

5/129 No 2 (Low Farmhouse) 2 farm cottages 23.6.66 and adjoining outbuildings - II Wrongly shown on O.S. map as Kell Gate. Farmhouse, mid/late C17, altered c.1800. Early/mid C18 farm cottages, byre and stable adjoining left and right, with mid-C19 extensions. Farmhouse and cottages now one house. Brick, in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings. Rear and left return of farmhouse rendered. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, shaped kneelers and rebuilt brick end stacks with stone dogtooth-moulded caps. Clay pantiles on cottages and outbuildings. 2 storeys, 3 bays defined by narrow pilaster strips rising from hollow-chamfered plinth. Central Victorian 6-panel door and overlight. All openings enlarged and surrounds added c.1800; architraves under bolection-moulded frieze and pediments, semicircular in middle bay, segmental in first-floor end bays, and with scrolls on first floor. Traces of original hoodmoulds flank window heads. Early C20 casements. Steeply-pitched roof has 3 small skylights. Lower left 2-storey 1-window cottage, entered from rear. Horizontal sash window with glazing bars, on ground floor; fixed-light first floor window. Lower 1-storey left byre has chevron-pattern breathers left of blocked door. Lower left extension. Right 1-storey, 2 window cottage, has horizontal sash windows with glazing bars, in altered openings. Slightly lower right stable and cart shed. Rear of farmhouse shows central staircase wing and horizontal sash windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: early C19 dogleg staircase with stick balusters, turned newels, moulded handrail and shaped tread ends. Moulded handrail on wall. Panelled doors in wood architraves, on ground floor. Farm outbuildings east of farmhouse are not of special interest. Architraves and pediments possibly re-used from C17 Thornton Hall, demolished c.1800.

Listing NGR: NZ4788513737