PRIOR'S MANSE

PRIOR'S MANSE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1214685
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: PRIOR'S MANSE
Statutory Address:: PRIOR'S MANSE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1214685
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: PRIOR'S MANSE
Statutory Address 1:: PRIOR'S MANSE, HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PRIOR'S MANSE, HIGH STREET

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County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Broadway
National Grid Reference:: SP 09947 37556

Details

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

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Legacy System number:: 399585
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.