Description

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SX0666 PRIORY ROAD
629-1/3/103 (South side)
26/03/49 Priory House

GV II

Country house now offices. Rebuilt 1766-1772, slightly
remodelled and extended mid C19. Local rubble with some
granite quoins and granite sills. Double-depth plan,
originally with 2 single-storey wings, the left-hand wing
heightened when house extended mid C19. 3 storeys; symmetrical
5-window front plus flanking 1-window bays with round-arched
recessed panels. Original 12-pane hornless sashes. Central
doorway with original traceried fanlight over glazed and
panelled door; Tuscan porch. Rear has most of its original
sashes. Left of the house is an excavated area of the old
priory. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with closed string,
column-over-vase turned balusters and ramped mahogany handrail
scrolled over newel; some panelled doors and window shutters
with fielded panels; some moulded ceiling cornices including
ceiling with dentils to 1st floor right; some panelled
reveals; moulded arch between entrance and stair hall on
panelled pilasters and at least 2 chimneypieces with eared
architraves. Probably mid C19: panelling and moulded
architraves to right-hand wing. Dated from engraving of house.

Listing NGR: SX0738866955

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489874

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings