Thurston House

Thurston House is a house built around 1750, with 19th-century alterations and a rear wing that may have an earlier core. It is constructed of red brick, featuring a broad band of gauged brick at the first-floor level and another at the base of the parapet, which includes a moulded cornice. The house has limestone copings and ball finials at either end, with parapet gables and a slated roof. It has two storeys and attics, with a total of seven windows; the central three-window block is slightly set forward. The windows are sashes with flat arches of gauged brick, small panes, and flush frames, while the upper-storey windows have louvred shutters. The third and fifth windows on both storeys are two-thirds the width of the others.

The entrance features a fine 18th-century doorway with sunk pilasters, an open pediment decorated with egg-and-dart and Greek Key motifs, and console brackets beneath. Inside the pediment is a semi-circular fanlight. The entrance has a pair of half-glazed mid-19th-century doors with border panes and is complemented by a large semi-circular mid-19th-century porch that is fully glazed, with five tall lights between half columns and a flat roof adorned with wrought iron balustrading. The porch also has a half-glazed door that curves to match its shape.

There are five 18th-century dormers, featuring alternately segmental and gabled heavily-moulded pediments with small-pane casements. The gable chimneys, made of red brick, were rebuilt in the 19th century. At the rear, there is an 18th-century service wing in a three-cell form, possibly with a 17th-century core, and it has early 19th-century windows with cast iron diamond-pane casements. The centre rear includes a mid-18th-century staircase block with a mid-height round-headed sash window. To the right of the main elevation is a late 19th-century extension, which has two storeys and three windows, all sashes with small panes.

Inside, there is a mid-18th-century staircase featuring a wreathed handrail, turned balusters, and carved console brackets at each tread. The interior also boasts deep moulded cornices and several rooms with large sunk panels. Refurbishment of the interior was in progress at the time of the survey.