Thornton House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1954. House. 2 related planning applications.
Thornton House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-hall-merlin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thornton House, 25, Westgate, Louth, LN11 9YQ
- OS grid reference
- TF 324 872
- Coordinates
- 53.36546, -0.01098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornton House is a Grade II* listed building from the late 18th century. It is a five-storey brick house that stands gable end to the road, featuring a shallow pitched slate roof. The entrance front, facing west, has two three-storey segmental bays with three-light hung sash windows. The central section is slightly recessed and features a semi-circular arched head that reaches to the eaves cornice. The central windows on the second floor have a wide architrave with a segmental head, while the first floor has an architrave with two consoles and a cornice.
The central entrance is marked by two reeded columns and a triangular pediment that is broken over the semi-circular head of the doorway, which has plain reveals and a panelled door. A continuous band connects the cills of the first-floor windows on the west front and the north end. The eaves cornice extends along the building and, with a moulding on the gable, forms a pediment above the north end facing the road. On this road end, there are two windows on each floor, with sash windows set in wide wooden cases that are flush with the wall face and have flat arched heads. The right-hand ground floor window is a bow window, similar in proportions to those on the west front. The property is flanked by two channelled stone gate piers and a brick wall.
Thornton House is part of a group that includes Nos 25, 29 to 31 (odd), Westgate House, The Limes, and Nos 43 to 47 (odd).
Local climate
Thornton House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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