Strathore House, Thornton

Late 18th century with mid 19th century wing. 2-storey, 4-bay house with 5th bay wing. Rubble and harl with ashlar dressings. Bracketed cill to porch window; deeply chamfered arrises and stone mullions. Crowsteps.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 18th century block to left of centre with 3 windows to each floor and finialled gableheads breaking eaves above, from left to right finials are rose, pineapple and thistle. Bay to right of centre with single storey, cavetto-corniced ashlar porch with large tripartite window, deep-set multi-pane door and plate glass fanlight on return to left in architraved surround, each face with ball-finialled stepped gablehead. Recessed face behind with star-finialled gableheaded window breaking eaves. Taller, thistle-finialled, gabled bay to outer right with canted tripartite window to each floor.

W ELEVATION: canted tripartite window with ball-finialled gableheads in bay to right at ground, window above and blocked window to left at each floor, dominant shouldered wallhead stack above.

N ELEVATION: advanced, harled, gabled bay to centre with 2 windows to each floor and small gablehead stack, window to ground on return to left; bay to left with tiny window at ground and tall stair window above, and slightly advanced gabled bay to outer left with multi-pane door to right and window above, with full-height chimney breast and dominant gablehead stack. Bay to outer right with window to ground and later quadripartite window above, single storey outbuilding abutting beyond.

W ELEVATION: gabled bay with window to each floor at outer right, advanced pitch-roofed bay to centre with modern glass door slapping and window on return to right, door to outer left.

4-, 6-, 12 and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows except to right at N elevation. Grey slates. Coped harled and ashlar stacks, some with polygonal cans and thackstanes; ashlar-coped skews and beak skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: panelled shutters and plain cornicing. Carved timber, marble and stone fireplaces; dog-leg staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and timber handrail. Decorative coloured glass to stair window.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES: some coped rubble boundary walls. Decorative cast-iron gates and piers with large S-scroll flanks.