British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

THURTON HALL ROAD, South
TG 30 SW side
Thurton Hall
2/60
25.9.51
- II

Country house, C17. Brick and timber frame, flint and brick gables, front
elevation rendered and ashlared. Steeply-pitched pantile roof. Two
storeys, attic and cellar. Symmetrical facade of five bays with central
three-storey porch. Ground floor windows in segmental headed recesses with
brick dentil ornament; 4-light casements with transom and glazing bars.
The window to the east of the porch partially blocked with square-headed
cellar window below. First floor windows square, 3-light casements with
glazing bars and moulded mullions and transoms. The westernmost window
is a later replacement. Porch has segmental arches over ground floor and
first floor openings; entrance door in square-headed moulded frame, first
floor 3-light casement with transom and glazing bars, square attic cross-
casement with glazing bars. Giant corner pilaster on moulded bases. Crow-
stepped east and west gables with internal stacks. Ridge stack off-centre
to west. Staged brick buttresses on west gable. Later hipped extension
of south-east corner, forming double pile, and gabled wing to south of flint
and brick; casements with glazing bars, some windows retaining leaded
glazing. Large external chimney stack on south range. In the west wall
a good early C17 doorway with moulded frame. Three-light casements with
glazing bars in-south wall.


Listing NGR: TG3299800469

Source: English Heritage

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