Description

PRIORY LANE SW15
1.
5033
The Priory Hospital
(including ice-house)
TQ 27NW 1/1 18.2.75
II
2.
Early 19th Century stucco Gothic with slate roofs behind battlements. Two-storeys.
[North (former entrance) elevation to Dowdeswell Close.]
Long, irregular font, central advanced, entrance bay with pointed-arch door of
panel tracery recessed behind taller pointed arch in gabled porch. Niche above
with figure of bishop. Octagonal towers left and right supporting triplets of
Tudor-type stacks. Octagonal buttresses and pilaster strips cut by chamfered
strings characterise the elevation, which is pierced by a variety of windows.
[South (garden) elevation.]
Three-bay pointed-arch entrance loggia with trellis-moulded interior pierced by
central panel-tracery double door between mullion-and-transom windows. Flanking
octagonal towers with panel-tracery windows under pointed-arch drip moulds.
Tudor-type stacks.
To right, long asymmetrical right-angled range articulated by pinnacled buttresses.
Later extensions to left of loggia and towards Priory Lane.
Some interiors of note, including a chapel with a fine ceiling. Ice-house in
grounds.
Extensions by Romiau and Cough circa 1840.

Listing NGR: TQ2152575185

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Priory Hospital at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7245500

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings