Thorlby House

Thorlby House is a large house built in the mid to late 18th century, with alterations made around 1840 and further changes in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is made of square stone, rendered roughcast, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, designed in the Greek Revival style.

The 18th-century wing features a projecting entrance block added around 1840 on the right side. The entrance front has two storeys and three bays. The right-hand entrance is highlighted by a Greek Ionic portico with a pulvinated frieze and a pediment adorned with modillions. It has a four-panel door with a dentilled lintel and a fanlight above. On the ground floor, there is a French window with a moulded surround and late 19th-century casement windows. The upper floor has a sill band and two windows with moulded surrounds, featuring four-pane sashes. A projecting modillioned cornice and projecting quoins are present, along with a left-hand eaves stack.

The left-hand return of the building includes a two-storey bow window with three lights on each storey. The ground floor features two engaged pilasters and two Ionic columns in antis, decorated with modillions. The upper floor has a sill band and moulded surrounds for the windows, with sashes without glazing bars on the ground floor and sashes with glazing bars on the upper floor. To the left, there are four recessed bays of the 18th-century house, which were refronted around 1840, now featuring two bay windows from around 1910, likely by Perkin & Bulmer. A late 19th-century cast iron verandah with Composite capitals supports four pillars.

Inside, the entrance hall features mid-19th-century architraves leading to a round-headed arch, now fitted with mid-20th-century two-leaf doors. The entrance hall and drawing room boast elaborate mid-19th-century plasterwork on the ceilings. A stone geometrical staircase is present, with moulded cast iron balusters and a wreathed handrail. A plan of the house, created by James Hartley of Skipton in 1926, is displayed in the entrance hall, copied from a plan by Perkin & Bulmer from 1911.