Description

YETMINSTER
HIGH STREET
ST 5910 (South side)

11/155 Priors Cleve,
(formerly listed
11.7.51 as "Cleave Priors")

GV II

Detached house. Early - mid C17 - enlarged mid C20. Rubble stone walls,
stone slate roof with coped gables. Brick end stacks. Original front range
with 2 attached rear ranges forming square plan. 2 storeys. East (original
entrance) front has porch with a 2-light stone mullioned window replacing
door. Ground floor has two 3-light stone mullioned windows with lead lights,
and hoodmoulds. First floor has 2 similar windows. Flanking the porch,
timber ionic pilasters extending to eaves level. Present entrance with
re-used door in north wall of rear wing - this extended to west in C20 in
matching style. Internally, one ground floor room in main range has large
open fireplace with curved timber lintel. Some deep chamfered ceiling beams.
Staircase incorporates C17 turned balusters and renewals. Interior somewhat
altered, with some re-set features. (RCHM Monument 8. Dorset. Vol. I)

Listing NGR: ST5947610795

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26447756

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)