Thorpe Hall

TA 16 NW RUDSTON THORPE HALL

10/54 Thorpe Hall 11.1.52 GV II*

Country House. Mid C17 origins, main block c1740, wings late C18, extensive additions to right in same character in late C19. Stucco, roughcast, brick with stone dresings, slate roofs. Main block of 3 storeys and basement, 5 bays arranged 2:1:2. Chamfered plinth, rusticated quoins. Central C19 porch with Tuscan portico to main door with fanlight in round-headed surround with pilasters, moulded capitals and keyblock. Side windows to porch with intersecting glazing bars in round-headed architraves with key-block under moulded cornice and coped parapet. Centre bay breaks forward slightly above porch under semi- circular pediment with scrolls and giant shell motif. Round-headed sash door to balcony over porch with intersecting glazing bars in rectangular surround, enriched with circles, under moulded cornice. Second floor window has 16-pane sash in stone surround with projecting key-block. Ground and first floor windows elsewhere have 15-pane sashes in wooden surrounds with stone sills and moulded cornices. Second floor has sashes with glazing bars in wooden surrounds with stone sills, wedge lintels, and iron railings. Moulded cornice. Coped pilastered parapet. Double end-stacks with strainer arches, hipped roof. Wings have chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins. French windows with glazing bars and 8-pane lights over to ground floor, first floor band, 16-pane sashes with stone sills to first floor. Moulded cornice, coped parapet, hipped roofs. Interior has several early features. Two 3-light flat- headed windows with chamfered mullions in the basement indicate the presence of an earlier house on the site. The long gallery in the ground floor of the east wing has plaster frieze, cornice, and ceiling in the Adam style. Elsewhere most internal features are of c1820: 6-panel doors in fluted architraves with roundels and rosettes, fireplaces with fluted surrounds and roundels and rosettes, and a main staircase with cut string, slender turned balusters, and heavy moulded handrail, the latter perhaps re-used. Late C19 west wing not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TA1092967675