Thornton Lodge

Thornton Lodge is a Gothick house built in the 1840s, featuring white coursed stucco walls and steep purple slate roofs with shaped courses. The building has four chimneys and presents an irregular two-storey gabled block adorned with heavy carved openwork bargeboards. It includes yellow sandstone mullioned windows, some of which have deep label moulds, as well as a square-headed window with ogee-headed lights. A crenellated two-storey stone bay adds to its character, and there is a tall yellow sandstone mullioned and transomed staircase window with original diamond leaded glazing. The garden terraces are enclosed by low stone trefoil openwork walls.

Inside No 1, there is a newel dogleg staircase with shaped oak handrails and a sculpted closed string, featuring double balusters and ornate newels. An openwork glazed oak screen leads to the hall, and the internal doors are four-panel with raised fielded and bolection moulded panels. The front entrance door is an oak Gothic-headed design, framed, battened, and cross-braced. The dining room boasts rectangular oak panelling and a fine plaster cornice, while the drawing room features exquisite mahogany panelling.

In No 2, the dining room has inserted oak panelling, and there is a well-preserved original parlour with arched recesses and moulded plasterwork.