Description

DORRINGTON MAIN STREET
TF 05 SE (north side)

4/34
The Priory
- II
House. Early and late C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed limestone
rubble and brick, mostly rendered with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs.
2 rendered gable stacks. 3 bay, 2½ storey. Central projecting C19 porch with
chamfered plinth and ashlar coped parapet with 2 corner piers with ashlar caps.
8 fielded panel door. Either side are single canted bay windows with full height
glazing bar sashes. Above 3 glazing bar sashes in moulded ashlar surrounds,
and above again 3 smaller glazing bar sashes also in moulded ashlar surrounds.
The 2 upper floors are articulated with 4 Tuscan Doric pilasters, with moulded
ashlar bases and capitals, topped with an entablature which forms a deep parapet
with moulded ashlar coping. To the rear a lower wing, much altered. Interior
has a plain late C18 staircase.

Listing NGR: TF0837852971

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552365

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6