Farmsteading, Thornton

This mid-19th century farmhouse in Thornton is a two-storey, three-bay structure that has undergone later additions and alterations. It is constructed from tooled coursed sandstone with droved dressings, while the rear is made of rubble. The building features a base course and strip quoins.

The southeast elevation is near-symmetrical, with a gabled bay that is advanced to the center. It has regular fenestration on both the ground and first floors. The doorway, located in the bay to the right, has polished decorative dressing and a panelled timber door. There is a window on the ground floor of the bay to the left, and a dormer window that breaks the eaves on the first floor above.

The northeast elevation is asymmetrical with four bays. The two bays on the left are gabled, each with a window on the ground floor and a single window centered in the gable on the first floor. The penultimate bay to the right is recessed and features a small-pane bipartite window. There is a gabled single-storey bay to the right that is advanced, with a boarded glazed door flanked by three windows on the left return.

The northwest elevation is a single storey with three irregularly placed windows, and a gabled window that breaks the eaves is recessed to the right.

The southwest elevation is also asymmetrical and consists of three bays. The gabled bay to the right is advanced and has a bipartite window in the center of the ground floor, with a single window in the center of the first floor. The center and left bays are recessed, featuring a bipartite window in the center flanked by a gabled bay that has a small-pane door to the left.

The farmhouse predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead ridges, and coped stone skews. The wallhead stacks are shouldered, stugged, and coped, with circular cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods are also present. The interior was not seen in 1998.