Thorne House

Thorne House is a large detached house dated 1882, designed by Sir T G Jackson, although parts of the northern section may be older. It features ham stone ashlar on the south and west sides, with plain clay tiled Mansard roofs and coped gables, along with ashlar chimney stacks. The house is built in a neo-Elizabethan style, with the west elevation consisting of two storeys and an attic, featuring three gabled bays and a projecting central porch.

The design includes a plinth, string courses, and moulded coped gables with various forms of ball and obelisk finials on plinths. The windows are ovolo moulded mullioned types with transoms. The first bay has an angled two-storey bay with one large light and three smaller lights topped by a stepped stone roof. The first and second bays have four-light windows without transoms or labels in the attic, while the third bay features a central projecting chimney stack with offsets, no ground floor windows, and two-light windows on either side of the stack on the first floor, along with single lights in the attic.

The projecting porch has a moulded semi-circular outer arch and a three-light window on the first floor, with a carved panel displaying the initials JLH and the date 1882 between them. The inner doorway is cambered arched with part-glazed doors. The south front includes two projecting square bays with Dutch gables, and the windows consist of a combination of two, one, three, one, three lights with four-centre arched and transomed lights, supported by pilasters on corbels at the first floor, which develop into Ionic capitals at the attic level.

On the north side, there are some 16-pane sash windows of an early 19th-century pattern, and a later two-storey three-bay block is located at the northeast corner. The interior has not been seen.