Thackray House

HATFIELD MANOR ROAD SE 6609 (SE 60 NE) (west side) 16/43 No 42 24.11.66 (Thackray House) (formerly listed as Thackray Villa) GV II House. Rear wing dated 'TS / 1782', front range probably later C18 for Joseph Thackray, Red brick in Flemish bond, stone slate eaves courses to pantile roofs. 2-storey, 3-bay front with lower wing to rear left and additions in the angle. Entrance front: 1 : 1 : 1 bays, the gabled central bay breaking forward and with round-arched recess containing part-glazed door and fanlight with Gothick glazing bars beneath flat arch. Outer bays have projecting sills to sashes with glazing bars beneath rubbed-brick flat arches. Moulded stone eaves cornice and pedimented gable with quatrefoil in tympanum having rubbed-brick surround and containing a roundel. Shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings. External end stacks with offsets and tabling. Left return: French window with 4-pane overlight on left of stack beneath sash with glazing bars; unequally-hung 15-pane sashes to right of stack. Wing on left has French window and fanlight with Gothick glazing bars beneath shaped datestone, various other sashes; dentilled eaves. Hatfield Church of St. Lawrence contains a monument to Joseph Thackray, Civil Engineer, who died January 22nd 1828. This was presumably his house and may have been designed by him.

Listing NGR: SE6618809120