Description

SO 9624 PRESTBURY HIGH STREET (north side)

17/69 The Priory

GV II

Semi-detached house, formerly one house (q.v. The Little Priory, Mill Street). C14, C16-early C17, and C18. Close-studded timber framing with some bracing, pebble-dashed infill exposed at first floor level of three left-hand bays. Ground floor now mostly random squared and dressed limestone. Left gable end timber- framed. Five bays to right coursed squared and dressed limestone. Stone slate roof. Ashlar stacks one restored C20. Rectangular main body with C18 range at right-angles rear right now under a separate ownership. Two storeys and attic lit by four hipped roof dormers with hung slate. Nine-windowed facade lit by single and 2- light steel casements with leaded panes. Central C20 plank door within a flat-chamfered stone surround. Single-storey lean-to at left gable end. Stepped coping at right gable end. Axial and gable-end stacks. Two hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned cross windows with cinquefoil headed lights and carved spandrels to first floor at right gable end. Interior; two rooms with C17 panelling. Fluted frieze above panelling in downstairs room. Large open fireplace with bressumer beam. Tie beams with deep flat chamfers. According to David Verey the house incorporates a C14 hall of four bays, formerly single- storeyed and open to the roof. The arch-braced collar beam trusses now mostly cut back. One brace with a bowtell moulding springing from a semi-octagonal wall post with a moulded capital was present in 1975. Limited interior inspection. History; By 1538 the house known to be in the ownership of Llanthony Priory and was called the manor house or rectory. (David Verey, The Buildings of England; The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1980)

Listing NGR: SO9695524018

External Links

• Wikidata Q26384192

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)