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Latitude: 52.9014 / 52°54'4"N
Longitude: -2.1441 / 2°8'38"W
OS Eastings: 390401
OS Northings: 333778
OS Grid: SJ904337
Mapcode National: GBR 15Q.4QH
Mapcode Global: WHBDF.1B8L
Plus Code: 9C4VWV24+G8
Entry Name: The Priory
Listing Date: 9 March 1949
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1219144
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386009
ID on this website: 101219144
Location: Stone, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST15
County: Staffordshire
District: Stafford
Civil Parish: Stone
Built-Up Area: Stone
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Stone St Michael and St Wulfad
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Priory
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
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