Description

SP 0937 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (north side)
8/46 Prior's Manse
30.7.59
GV II*
House. Early C14 with C17 alterations. Restored 1958. Limestone rubble
with stone slate roof. Comprises a central hall with a cross-wing at the
left (west), and a service end at the right extended forwards to form a
second cross-wing in the C17. Two storeys. The C17 mullioned windows are
rebated and chamfered. The left-hand cross-wing has a 2-light window on
each floor, and a coped gable. The hall has a window of four lights, one
of one light, and two dormers. At the right is a pointed doorway of early
C14 type, with sunk quadrant moulding and a keel-moulded hood. The right-
hand cross-wing has a window of four lights on the ground floor and one of
three lights on the first floor. Chimneys to right of left-hand wing, on
main ridge in line with apex of right-hand wing, and forward of ridge to
left of doorway. The right-hand (east) wall of the left-hand cross-wing has
a blocked chamfered doorway with pointed head, and a window under the eaves.
The left-hand wall has two 3-light windows and two attic dormers. Rear wall
of hall has doorway similar to the one in the front wall, at opposite end
of cross-passage. Interior: hall range has parts of three cruck-trusses
visible. On the ground floor at the rear of the building the feet of blades
to the east and west of the cross-passage can be seen; in the room to the
west part of the base of a third truss can be seen. On the first floor this
truss is ceiled at collar level. The truss to the west of the cross-passage
has curved braces to the collar. The truss to the east has a lap-jointed
collar of lighter scantling. Some curved wind-braces are visible. On the
ground floor the ceiling inserted into the hall has deeply-moulded beams.
A stone fireplace has a re-cut inscription which includes the words: "By Mee
Richarde Bocknole ... 168-". The ceiling of the early cross-wing has wide
joists laid flat. A stone fireplace is moulded and has a canted head. On
the first floor the two trusses visible in this wing have arch-braced collars.
Parts of two wall posts are uncovered, suggesting that the wing was at least
partly timber-framed. The lack of evidence for wall-framing in the hall range
together with the early date of the stone doorways to the cross-passage, makes
it likely that this has always had stone walls.

Listing NGR: SP0994737556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548658

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)