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Latitude: 52.2137 / 52°12'49"N
Longitude: -1.9229 / 1°55'22"W
OS Eastings: 405366
OS Northings: 257274
OS Grid: SP053572
Mapcode National: GBR 3K0.0PW
Mapcode Global: VHB07.MM9C
Plus Code: 9C4W637G+FV
Entry Name: Cookhill Priory
Listing Date: 30 July 1959
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1096283
English Heritage Legacy ID: 148363
ID on this website: 101096283
Location: Wychavon, Worcestershire, B49
County: Worcestershire
District: Wychavon
Civil Parish: Cookhill
Built-Up Area: Cladswell
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Cookhill
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Farmhouse Cistercian nunnery
SP 05 NE INKBERROW CP EVESHAM ROAD (west side)
Cookhill
6/89 Cookhill Priory
30.7.59
GV II*
Farmhouse incorporating remnants of Cistercian nunnery. Probably C15 with
additions of 1763 and early C20. Timber-frame, mostly clad in brick;
additions of brick with ahslar dressings. Front (west) range 1763 and
early C20, rear range parallel to front, and slightly longer to south.
West front: two storeys, brick parapet over modillioned stone cornice,
stone band to ground floor, ashlar quoins; angled bay window to left,
four windows to rest of front, all with moulded stone architraves and
glazing-bar sashes; the three windows to the right are the early C20
addtion; ground floor: architraves have keystones, entrance immediately
to right of bay has stone doorcase; Doric pilasters and segmental pediment.
Interior reported to have a staircase with turned balusters and ramped hand-
rail, C18 doorcases and a C18 chimneypiece. The extensive earthworks around
the house are scheduled as an Ancient Monument. The nunnery was founded in
C12. (VCH 3, pp 419-420; BoE p 123-4; P Reid, 1980, Burke's and Savill's
Guide to Country Houses, Vol II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire,
Worcestershire, London, pp 198-199).
Listing NGR: SP0536657274
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