Description

THORNER THORNER LANE SE33NE LS14 (west side, off) SE367388

9/202 Field Head

II

Large house, now offices. c1844, with early C20 added bay window for James Hare a Leeds clothier. Well-coursed punch-dressed stone, Welsh blue-slate roof. 2-room front separated by entrance hall, double-depth with rear wing. Jacobean Revival style. 2 storeys and attics. 3-bay 3-gabled facade with central porch which has tall pointed-arched doorway with hoodmould and double-doors flanked by octagonal corner columns with tall finials; set between, parapet carried round 3 sides pierced by ovals. Above sash window with plain stone surrounds with small shaped gable, with hoodmould and ball finial, in which is set lozenge-shaped window. Flanking bays slightly set forward have sill bands and low tall window with raised stone surrounds with same above and smaller attic window in apex of coped gables with kneelers and finials. 2-storey canted bay, early C20 added to left. Tall rendered stacks with octagonal chimney pots set either side of central bay. Rear: coped gable with finials and stack to right pitch, lower wing has external gable stack. Right-hand return: ashlar plinth, sill bands continued from front 5 bays of windows as front with coped gable with finials carried over centre 3 bays. Wing, set back, has 2 windows with projecting wooden frames on brackets, 2-light and 3-light with small paned casements, 2 single-light and 3-light windows above. Stack to rear roof pitch of wing.

Interior: deep entrance hall has Jacobean-style ribbed plaster ceiling; semicircular arch with architrave, keystone and impost leading to open-string dog-leg stair with 2 turned balusters to each riser and oak ramped handrail. At foot of stair, arched doorway with architrave, keystone and spandrels leads to oak-panelled passage leading to the Oak Room: oak-panelled walls early C17 (re-used) have pilasters with finely-carved strapwork, fluted frieze, Victorian Tudor-arched stone fireplace carved with strapwork, wide oak floorboards, fine plaster Jacobean-style ceiling with strapwork filled with vine-leaf ornament. Other rooms opening from the entrance hall each of differing character. Fine mahogany door with 6 raised-and- fielded panels leads into an elegant Queen-Anne-style dining-room: well-proportioned with curved sides with shell-motif heads flank fireplace with engaged fluted Tuscan columns and dentil cornice, marble inner surround; above and to either side red deal panelled walls with large raised-and-fielded panels, carved skirtings, dado rail and casement-moulded cornice with egg-and-dart ornament, parquet-wood floor. East facing Georgian-style sitting-room opened through to adjacent room to form large conference-room: large fireplace with fluted Roman Ionic columns, frieze carved with swags of fruit and bold cornice, walls formed with large moulded panels, decorative cornice and plaster ceiling has large panel with oak and acorn border and central boss with flowers and leaves in high relief.

Listing NGR: SE3671938756

External Links

• Wikidata Q26555894

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)