Thorne House

Thorne House is a house that was later used as an inn, likely built in the early 19th century, possibly as a remodelling of an earlier structure. The building has undergone some alterations in the early to mid 20th century, with minor changes made in the late 19th century. It is rendered over stone rubble and features a gable-ended asbestos slate roof with a stone stack.

The house has a three-room plan, with the ground falling to the left. It includes a large central room with an external lateral stack at the rear, a smaller room to the left with an external end stack, and a former small room to the right that has been converted into a garage, likely in the early to mid 20th century. The front entrance is located at the left-hand end of a central porch, which has been later gabled. There is a through carriageway at the right-hand end that leads to a courtyard at the rear, along with a lean-to addition at the back of the left-hand end.

The exterior features an asymmetrically-fenestrated front with three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all with early 19th-century boxed 16-pane glazing bar sashes. There is a two-panelled door from the 19th century located off-centre to the left between the ground-floor windows, framed with beaded pegs and likely featuring a 19th-century gabled porch with slate side benches. To the right, there are 20th-century folding boarded garage doors. The carriageway on the far right has a large pair of boarded doors, with the left-hand door being a two-leaf design, featuring strap hinges and an old wooden frame.

Inside, the central ground-floor room has a cross beam and an open fireplace at the rear with dressed stone jambs and a 17th-century chamfered wooden lintel, which is probably reused. There is a stud wall between the central and left-hand rooms, and window seats are present at the front. The first-floor rooms and roof space have not been inspected.