Thorn Farmhouse Including Linhay Adjoining North East

Thorn Farmhouse, dating to 1686, is likely a remodelling of an earlier house, with extensions added in the late 18th or 19th century and restoration work carried out in the mid to late 20th century. The farmhouse is constructed of painted and plastered stone rubble, with an asbestos slate roof and gable ends. It features stone rubble gable end and axial stacks with slate weathering and tapered tops.

Originally, the house comprised two rooms and a through passage, with a gable-end stack in the lower right room and a central axial stack backing onto the passage in the hall. A two-storey bay, dated 1686, is located on the front left of the hall; this was either part of the original design or a later 17th-century addition. A further two-storey, one-room extension with a gable end stack was added either in the late 17th century alongside the hall bay or in the 18th or 19th century, when the hall bay was converted into a porch and rear outshuts were built. In the 19th century, the farmhouse was divided into two cottages, with winder stairs added to the back of the hall and lower end rooms, and the original partition in the through passage removed. It was later reunited into a single house and restored.

The front of the farmhouse has an asymmetrical design with a four-window range, incorporating late 20th-century wooden casement windows with glazing bars. A gabled two-storey porch, which was formerly the hall bay, has a 20th-century plank door, a window above with a slate hoodmould, and a slate plaque inscribed “Neville Tucker 1686 Fecit” in the gable. A weathered string course runs above the door. A 20th-century plank door with an asbestos slate canopy is located to the right of centre. The rear elevation features a large, one-and-a-half-storey outshut with an attic, and a lower outshut behind the lower end, both with catslide roofs, and 20th-century plank doors.

Inside, the hall has chamfered cross-beam and half-beam ceilings with bar stops, and a chamfered beam supported on a wooden corbel with ogee stops. The hall has a large fireplace in the axial stack at the lower end, featuring a chamfered wooden lintel with ogee or notched stops on a corbelled jamb at one end; above the lintel is a worn plaster frieze depicting heart or flower motifs. The hall bay (now porch) has rough joists. The higher left-end room has a plastered ceiling. The accessible roof space over the lower end contains nailed softwood trusses, and the feet of straight principals are visible in the hall chamber.

Adjoining the farmhouse to the northeast is a 19th-century linhay with two bays. It has a central stone rubble pier, is open on the ground floor, but is enclosed above with 20th-century weatherboarding and an asbestos slate gable-ended roof.