Thorntree Farmhouse

Thorntree Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse, incorporating earlier 18th-century fabric. The older part of the house is constructed of coursed sandstone, while the remainder is of red brick in an English garden wall bond of 4 and 1, with alternating stone quoins and a stone plinth. It has a pantiled roof with a stone ridge, copings, and kneelers, along with brick chimneys. The plan follows a hearth-passage layout. The main section of the house is two storeys high with three windows, arranged irregularly, and includes a lower, two-storey, one-bay downhouse. There's a wide boarded door in a cross-passage position, a modern flush casement to the left with a small six-pane sash window above, and a blocked doorway to the right of centre. Replaced sixteen-pane sash windows are set under flat arches of sloped bricks with stone keys, with the first-floor centre window likely a later insertion. The rear elevation is of stone in the lower portion, with two bands of brick above the plinth. The upper portion is two storeys high and irregular, featuring three small, blocked, chamfered openings on the ground floor, one in the fire-window position, along with a sixteen-pane and a tripartite sash window. Upstairs are a twelve-pane and a tripartite window. A downhouse to the right has been raised by eight courses of modern brick, with two new windows, one in the door position. Internally, there are two old chamfered beams, one in the fireplace position and one on the first floor. The roof features stout pegged collar-beam trusses and trenched through-purlins at two levels.