Description

THORALBY VILLAGE STREET SE 0086-0186 (north-west side) 13/131 High Green Farmhouse 25.3.69 GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Early-mid C18, main range of earlier origin, with later rear range. Rubble, stone slate roof. Hearth-passage double-depth plan, 2 storeys, 4 bays. Quoins to right. In third bay, part-glazed door in rusticated quoined surround. Windows have narrow ashlar surrounds, sashes with glazing bars on ground floor, 9-pane unequally-hung sashes on first floor. Ovolo-shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to right. Corniced ashlar stacks between third and fourth bays and at ends, that to left formerly external, encased in later farmbuilding, now converted into cottage (not of special interest). Interior: ground-floor doors of 6 fielded panels; ground-floor room to right has altered fireplace with salt box, and shell-niche cupboard. First-floor doors of 4 fielded panels, including one giving access to narrow flight of steps up to roof space, formed in tapering side of central chimney stack.

Listing NGR: SE0010586810

External Links

• Wikidata Q26474973

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