Description

5141 THORNEY BLACK DROVE Thorney Lodge TF 20 NE 6/585 II Farmhouse divided as two dwellings. Dated 1855 on recessed stone panel over main entrance doorway. Probably designed as a hunting lodge by S S Teulon for the Duke of Bedford's Thorney estate in a stripped C17 vernacular style. Gault brick with some brighter yellow brick details, Welsh slate roof with gabled dormers. Two large brick stacks at rear of front range and ridge stack on rear wing. Offset brick plinth, cogged brick eaves cornice, moulded brick kneelers to all gables. Each gable has a small, blank, central, recessed panel. Two storeys with some first floor windows rising into gabled dormers. Double. pile range with wing at rear of two storeys and single storey with attic. Symmetrical front: 3 bays with projecting, central, 2-storey gabled porch. Porch doorway and single side light porch windows have 4-centered brick arched heads and chamfered jambs with alternating courses of dark and bright bricks. Panelled door. A 3-light casement in bays to either side of porch under slightly cambered arched heads and a 2-light casement above each and to first floor of porch. The RH return gable wall of the front range has a single storey canted bay window with slate roof: 2-light casement flanked by single light casements; yellow brick angle quoins. Otherwise single, two or three-light casements similar to front in the side walls and rear wing. Rear wing has one gabled dormer similar to front dormers and two 4-centered arched doorways with external chamfers. All casements wood framed with glazing bars. Interior: staircase with turned newels and balusters, moulded handrail. Drawing room partly panelled.

Listing NGR: TF2816406309

External Links

• Wikidata Q26616195

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