Thorncliff Hall

Thorncliff Hall is a house dating from 1702, although it underwent significant rebuilding and remodelling around 1830. It is constructed of dressed stone, with watershot stone at the rear, and features a graduated stone slate roof. This large, nearly symmetrical two-storey house has additions at the rear and a wing to the left, designed in the Jacobean style. The façade consists of seven bays, with the central three projecting and topped with a shaped gable, flanked by similar gables on either side. Notable architectural details include a projecting plinth, a first-floor band, a soldier course, and quoins. The central door is framed by a fine bolection-moulded surround, a pulvinated frieze, and a scrolled pediment that encloses a dated enriched cartouche, which may be re-used. The house features a total of six ground floor and seven first floor two-light mullion and transom cavetto-moulded windows, some with leaded lights, some with glazing bars, and some with 20th-century casements. The right bays appear to pre-date the rest of the building, and there are large additions at the rear. The gables and chimney stacks are topped with paired finials set diagonally. An arched stair window is located to the right, and there are fire surrounds and other internal features present.