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placename:- Thrimby Hall
parish Thrimby parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY55562046
10Km square:- NY52

1Km square NY5520

photograph

Thrimby Hall -- Thrimby -- Cumbria / -- 30.5.2006

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

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THRIMBY HALL / / / THRIMBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74375 / NY5556420464
courtesy of English Heritage
Farmhouse. Dated 1673 on timber in bedroom with another date and initials over entrance IW (wife's initial blank) 1745. Pink sandstone rubble walls with raised quoins and eaves cornice, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; banded sandstone chimney stacks, 2 partly rebuilt in brick. 2 storeys, 7 bays. Off-centre C20 door in bolection architrave in doorcase with fluted pilasters and broken segmental pediment. Flat 2-light stone-mullioned windows, probably originally with transoms,in stone architraves. Left C20 glazed porch covers C20 door in stone architrave. Rear outshut was probably added in 1745. Interior: in left kitchen end a late C17 segmental-arched stone fireplace complete with brick oven and recesses. Right of the fireplace was a spiral staircase which led up to first floor and attic, but now blocked. C17 beamed ceiling. The right room was altered c.1745 with projecting stone fireplace and moulded plaster ceiling. C18 panelled doors throughout. Not listed in RCHM, Westmorland, 1936. Left concrete barns are not of interest.

placename:- Thrimby Hall
district:- Eden
listed building
coordinates:- NY55562046
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
GATE PIERS AND GARDEN WALL IN FRONT OF THRIMBY HALL / / / THRIMBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74376 / NY5556020430
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Gate piers and garden wall. Late C17 piers and wall rebuilt at various periods. Sandstone rubble wall with flat red sandstone coping and central rusticated square piers under moulded caps. Low wall on 3 sides of garden with central gateway reached by stone steps. Smaller gateway without piers at right junction with house. Listed for group value with Thrimby Hall.
district:- Eden
listed building -- gate piers
coordinates:- NY55562043
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

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