Description

THORNFORD -
ST 61 SW
Court House Dairy
9/135
11.7.51
- II
Detached farmhouse. Dated 1850 in transom of front window. Rubble-stone walls,
with a continuous string under the main window and over the front door. Clay-tile
roof with stone gable-copings. Stone stacks at left hand gable and at right
front stack embrasure. This embrasure has the fleur-de-lis of Digby. 1½-2 storeys.
2 windows, irregular and unusual fenestration. Left ground, 4-light casements
with wood mullions and stone cornice. Dormer window, gabled is a 3-light case-
ments with wood lintel over. Central window is a 2 storey, 3-light mullion window
with a heavy transom, dated as above. This is gabled and coped. Front door,
right of this window, moulded jambs and depressed-arch in a square head. Plank
door with strap hinges. Rear range at right angles. 1½ storeys. 2 windows,
3-light and 4-light wood casements with wood lintels over. Stone cornices to
ground floor windows. Doorway at centre with door-frame having a depressed-arch
head, plank door with strap-hinges. Outshut to rear of main range, former pump-
house. Dairy housed in rear range.

Listing NGR: ST6230714364

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26447294

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)