Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Cookhill Priory at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5167057

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  For the Record
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)