Description

ST 8893-8993 TETBURY THE CHIPPING
(west side)

7/131 The Priory
6.9.54

II

Large detached town house, now an old people's home. 1767 by
Matthew Sloper, with C19 additional wing to north. Coursed rubble
stone faced to east in ashlar, til roof, large ashlar stacks with
moulded cornices. L-shape C18 block with additional north wing
forming large rectangle. 3 storeys. Classical main front to east
with moulded stone cornice and dentils and balustraded parapet, and
pediment with circular window in tympanum over central 3 bays which
break forward slightly. Ground floor has 6 plate glass sashes in
plain reveals and central round-headed doorway with moulded
architrave and keystone and C20 glazed door. Lst floor has 7
windows, 12-pane sashes, the central 3 with stone architraves,
pulvinated friezes, cornices and pediments, and balustraded aprons.
2nd floor has 7 similar in plain reveals. Wide string courses
between floors. Some internal joinery remaining on ground floor -
shutters, panelling etc. Garden front to north of C19 has double
canted bays and single storey Jacobean linking unit, all with large
stone mullion and transom windows.

Listing NGR: ST8908293326

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26382068

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)