Houses of the North York Moors: Thornton-le-Dale

The Owlets (left - formerly Brenmar), Thornton-le-Dale High Street, C18 house with C19 shopfront. Grade II Listed. Hammered sandstone walls with stepped eaves course, pantile roof and central brick chimney stack. Pilaster and bracketed entablature shopfront with panelled shutters (British Listed Buildings). Amber Croft (right).

The village of Thornton-le-Dale is built where the roads to Malton (south), Whitby (north), Pickering (west) and Scarborough (east) cross. Thornton Beck runs through the village.

Ivy House, High Street, early C19 house and outbuilding. Grade II Listed. Dressed sandstone to front, slate roof and brick chimney stacks. Sash windows with stone lintels and sills (British Listed Buildings).

Lyndale Cottage, High Street, early C18 house. Grade II listed. Squared sandstone walls with stepped eaves course, pantile roof and brick chimney stacks. Fire window to right of the door, first floor windows Yorkshire sliding sashes (British Listed Buildings). 

Building attached to Thorney Creek

Howard Cottage

Well Garth, High Street, mid-late C18 house, later raised and altered. Grade II Listed. Roughly dressed sandstone, dressed sandstone where raised, pantile roof, brick chimney stacks and coped gable and kneeler to right. Fire window to left end on ground floor. Tripartite keyed lintels to original openings (British Listed Buildings).

York House, High Street, C17 cruck frame house, raised in C19. Grade II Listed. Dressed and coursed rubble sandstone walls, pantile roof and brick chimney stacks. Originally thatched: 'Roof thatch is preserved beneath pantiles' (British Listed Buildings).

Caulklands Cottage (left)

Newholme and Rolyat, pair of late C18 cottages, Grade II Listed. Coursed rubble sandstone walls, pantile roof, brick chimney stacks. Yorkshire sliding sash windows. C20 doors (British Listed Buildings).

Intack House

Easter Cottage (formerly Ashgill), Thornton-le-Dale High Street, Grade II Listed mid C18 house. Squared limestone walls, pantile roof, Yorkshire sliding sash windows, timber lintels to ground floor openings and brick chimney stacks (British Listed Buildings).

Royal Mail post box built into the front wall of Old Bar Cottage (formerly a public house)

Old Bar Cottage (formerly part of the Fox and Hounds Public House together with its neighbour to the west - left in photo - Fence Cottage - below). Cruck frame C17 house with C20 alterations. Grade II Listed. Squared sandstone walls, pantile roof, brick chimney stacks. Raking dormer windows to attic (British Listed Buildings).

Fence Cottage (formerly part of the Fox and Hounds Public House together with its neighbour to the east - right in photo - Fence Cottage - above). C17 house with C20 alterations. Grade II Listed. Squared sandstone walls, pantile roof and brick chimney stacks. Raking dormer windows to attic (British Listed Buildings).

Left, no. 1 High Street, centre, no. 2 High Street. Right, Linton Cottage and Lyland, pair of C18 cottages, Grade II Listed. Hammer-dressed sandstone walls on plinth, pantile roof, brick chimney stacks. Sash windows (British Listed Buildings).

No. 1 High Street. Sandstone walls on plinth, slate roof, brick chimney stack, sash windows

Comber House, High Street, Rectory built in 1839-41, designed by architect James Pigott Pritchett for the Reverend John Richard Hill. Grade II Listed. Hammer-dressed sandstone walls, ashlar dressings, paired modillions to eaves, hipped slate roof and sash windows with flat voussoir arches (British Listed Buildings). 

Ashlar dressings

Hammer-dressed sandstone

View west down Church Hill

Church of All Saints, late C14 Norman parish church. West Tower (British History). 

Footpath runs at high level up Church Hill

The Riding Stables, Church Hill. Originally a stables and carriage shed with loft above to the Hall, early-mid C18. Grade II Listed. Dressed sandstone wall to front, coursed rubble sandstone walls to sides and rear, painted, raised and chamfered quoin stones, pantile roof, flat voussoir arches to ground floor sash windows (British Listed Buildings).

Beck Isle Cottage, C17 cruck frame thatched cottage. Grade II Listed. Squared sandstone wall to front, coursed rubble sandstone walls to sides and rear. Yorkshire sliding sash windows with timber lintels. Cottage raised at a later date (British Listed Buildings). 

The Cottage (left) and Garden Cottage (right)

Lady Lumley's Almshouses and School, Chestnut Avenue, founded by Viscountess Elizabeth Lumley in 1656, to provide homes to 12 local elderly and free schooling. 

Lady Lumley's Almshouses, recently refurbished by Broadacres Housing, designed by local architects Bramhall Blenkhard Architects, Malton. Images of the scheme can be seen on the Thornton-le-Dale website here. Squared limestone with stone flag roof. Square surrounds to window and door openings. Two-light, diamond lattice, chamfered mullion, cinque-foiled windows (British Listed Buildings).

School, now used as a meeting hall, founded by Viscountess Elizabeth Lumley in 1656, to provide free schooling. Grade II Listed.  Sandstone, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and chimney stack, stone flag roof (British Listed Buildings).

Chamfered ashlar quoin stones, cavetto-moulded eaves cornice, coped gable and sandstone shaped kneeler (British Listed Buildings).

Square-headed ashlar sandstone surround, coursed rubble sandstone wall (British Listed Buildings).

Two-light, chamfered mullion and transom, cinque-foiled window in square-headed ashlar sandstone surround, coursed rubble sandstone wall (British Listed Buildings).

Thornton Beck along Chestnut Avenue

The New Inn, on the corner of Malton Gate and Pickering Road. Late C18 public house. Dressed limestone, painted, chamfered quoin stones, slate roof, coped gables with kneelers and brick chimney stacks. Painted flat arches with keystones to openings. Sash windows. Original carriage opening to yard seen on left, timber lintel visible either side of the bay window (British Listed Buildings).

Thornton Beck running south along Malton Gate

Rorty Crankle, on the corner of Malton Gate and Roxby Terrace, late C18 house. Grade II listed. Squared sandstone walls, coped gables, pantile roof, brick chimney stacks, sash windows (British Listed Buildings). 

Hall Farm, Malton Gate. Farmhouse, early C19. Grade II listed. 

Ivy Cottage, Rose Cottage and Brooklet House, Malton Gate. Ivy Cottage early C18 house, Grade II Listed. Dressed sandstone to front wall (coursed rubble sandstone to rear and side walls), pantile roof, brick chimney stacks, timber lintels to ground floor openings (British Listed Buildings).

Rose Cottage and Brooklet House, Malton Gate. Early C18 pair of cottages. Grade II Listed. Coursed rubble sandstone walls, timber porch, pantile roof and brick chimney stacks (British Listed Buildings).

Links and References
'Thornton-le-Dale', British Listed Buildings, [Online], Available: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/north+yorkshire/thornton-le-dale [30 Oct 2014].
Page, W. (ed.) (1923) 'Parishes: Thornton Dale', A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2, pp. 492-497, [Online], Available: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64698 [30 Oct 2014]