Staff Cottages, Nos 1-2 Rosaries, Church Road, Thornton Hough

Two cottages forming an L shaped block set at 45 degrees to Church Road and within the grounds of Thornton House. They are two of the few unlisted buildings of the early twentieth century in the village. According the RIBA the cottages date from 1901 (when Lomax Simpson was still in his teens). More probably they were part of the additions and alterations to Thornton House designed by Jonathan and James Lomax Simpson in 1906 although this has still to be verified. Both are designed in the vernacular tradition but not the local vernacular. Rather elements more commonly found in the south-east of England are incorporated – overlapping timber boarding and brick infill to timber construction. The stone boundary wall is that built to mark the original boundary of Thornton House which extended along much of Church Road returning along Raby Road

No 1 ROSARIES - Ground floor of painted roughcast render above brick plinth extending to sill level. Timber weather-board or clapperboard cladding to upper floor of end bay returning across gable and part rear elevation. Timbers tarred. Double height porch with half-timber upper room. Painted roughcast render. elsewhere. Plain clay tiled roof. Sandstone front boundary wall with hedge. Leaded windows.

No 2 ROSARIES - Ground floor of painted roughcast render above brick plinth extending to sill level. Doblle height porch, the upper room of half-timber construction with the wattle and daub replaced with brick infill laid in herringbone pattern. Leaded windows.

Reference           RIBAPix Staff Cottages Thornton Hough RIBA58769