Description

ST 47 NE PORTBURY STATION ROAD (west side)

1/171 Portbury Priory and Boundary Wall 13.10.52 to south-east - II

Remains of Priory buildings, now a house. C14 to C15; restored and altered early C19. Rubble with freestone dressings rind quoins, ashlar; slate roof with coped raised verges. L-plan, probably a hall with a tower at the south. East elevation. 2 storeys and attics, to right part which is the probable hall; clad in ashlar; embattled parapet; diagonal buttress at right end with off-sets and pinnacle; lateral stack to left with single cusped light windows to each side (that to the right is late mediaeval); central buttress; string course over ground floor; plank door with chamfered surround and 4-centred head on ground floor at the north (right) end. At the south (left) end is a 4-stage tower: rubble to the upper part, ashlar to the lower; doorway with chamfered surround and 4-centred head; part of blocked window on first stage; moulded ashlar stringcourse. Extending from south-east corner of the tower is a late mediaeval wall, approximately 30 yards long and 12-15 feet high, rubble with some plaster, corbels at east end. The south wing (Caswell Lane) is 3 storeys with a number of blocked openings and one 4-light casement window with a king mullion, ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds; C20 2-light casement window on second floor. The west gable end has a 3-light C20 casement window on the ground floor and a slit window in a chamfered surround on the third floor. To the right the south elevation of the tower has slit vents in chamfered surrounds on the ground floor; a 2-light cross window on the second stage with hollow moulded mullions and surrounds and cusped heads to the lights; other blocked windows above. The rear elevation of the east range has two single light windows on the ground floor, one with a coarsely chamfered surround; two 2-light cross windows on first floor, hollow moulded mullions and surrounds and restored trefoil heads; at the left is a projecting square stairtower with quoins and 2 blocked slit vents in chamfered surrounds. The north gable end has a 3-light window with cusped tracery on the first floor, a 2-light casement on the second and to the right of the window are 2 blocked doorways in chamfered surrounds with 4-centred heads; part of ruined wall projects from,the right end with part of a blocked door. The Caswell Lane range has two single light windows in chamfered surrounds on first floor and blocked window on ground floor. Interior. East range has a vaulted undercroft; early C19 moulded pointed arch at south end of main room; remains of stair at north-west corner. South range: square-headed, chamfered fireplace on ground floor.

Listing NGR: ST4983775231

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