Description

STONE

SJ9033 LICHFIELD STREET, Stone
651-1/7/39 (North side)
09/03/49 No.8
The Priory

GV II*

House. Early to mid C18 with early C19 alterations and
additions incorporating C13 or C14 undercroft. Stuccoed brick
with timber-framed internal walls; hipped roof. L-plan: C19
addition to front right. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Central
round-headed entrance has steps with parapets ending in
panelled piers, Doric colums to porch and paired panelled
doors. Windows have 4-pane horned sashes; canted bay window
and tripartite window to ground floor; smaller windows to 2nd
floor. Return lateral stacks; left return has brick stair to
1st floor; segmental-headed windows to rear.
INTERIOR has some exposed coursed squared stone to outer walls
and square-framed internal walls with C18 brick infill; C19
open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters, and remains of
earlier stair, moulded handrails and square newels, to 1st
floor; former right return has exposed C18 flemish bond brick
and ashlar wedge lintels with keys to former windows. Cellar
has 2 bays and 2 half-bays of medieval rib-vaulted undercroft:
single-chamfered ribs on corbels, octagonal pier now set in
later masonry and signs of blocked openings; cellar to rear
has chamfered beams and joists and large fireplace with
cambered lintel; cellar beneath C19 addition reveals stone
plinth and base of wall. House built on the site of the
Augustinian Priory of SS Mary and Wulfad, founded c1125.
(Victoria History of Staffordshire: 1970-: 240FF).

Listing NGR: SJ9040133778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545229

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)