Thorton Hall

Thornton Hall is a farmhouse located in Thornton in Lonsdale, dating from the late 17th century with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from limewashed rubble with limewashed stone dressings and features a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays.

The entrance is situated to the left of the centre and is framed by a 20th-century gabled porch that has a moulded surround and a four-panel door, of which the upper two panels are glazed. The left-hand ground and upper floor windows have plain 19th-century surrounds and feature six-pane sash windows. To the right of the entrance, there is a large ground floor window with a moulded surround and six-pane sashes; it was likely wider originally, as indicated by the continuing hoodmould on the left and a lowered sill.

The right-hand ground floor window is a double-chamfered design, which probably had two lights with a missing mullion, and it also features a hoodmould. The remaining upper floor windows include a right-of-centre double-chamfered former two-light window with a missing mullion and six-pane sashes, and a right-hand stepped three-light double-chamfered window with outer fixed lights and inner four-pane sashes. The hoodmould above these windows has large stops, with a foliate design to the left and a grotesque design to the right.

The gable ends have stacks, with the right-hand stack projecting. Adjacent to the right of the hall is a main outbuilding that features a round-arched fireplace with joggled voussoirs, inscribed with the year 1669 and the initials IB TB.