The Priory
- Date:
- 22 Apr 2003
- Location:
- The Priory, 34 And 36 High Street, Bruton, South Somerset, Somerset, BA10 0AG
- Reference:
- IOE01/10530/19
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
ST6834NW BRUTON CP HIGH STREET (South side)
8/114 Nos.34 and 36 (The Priory)
24.3.61
GV II*
Formerly Priory Court House, now offices. C15 modified. Local stone cut and squared, ground floor; jettied timber frame first floor, covered with rendering ashlar lined; stone slate roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attics; 6 bays irregular fenestration. To ground floor, ovolo-mould timber frame windows with plain sash inserts and label moulds over; 4-light bay 1; 3-light bays 4 and 6; chamfered cambered arch doorway with C19 part glazed door bay 2, and similar door bay 5; corbelled pilasters to ends and centre first floor, with carved animals supporting heraldic shields (said to refer to John Henton, Prior of Bruton, 1448-1498); between these cover mould to projecting end beams and cill string course, and some moulded vertical posts, all timber; 3-light oriel window with plain sashes to upper bay 1, otherwise upper windows are 2-light ovolo mould frames with plain sashes, under label mouldings: 2 C20 pitched roof dormers with small pane windows in roof. Interior not seen, but reported are the jowled posts carrying first floor ceiling bears and a frayed ceiling with double roll moulding at West end, and roof with tenoned purlins and curved windbraces; otherwise much of the internal work is C19 re-arrangement.
(Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972; VAG Report, Unpublished SRO, February 1975).
Listing NGR: ST6824334815
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0642 IOE Records taken by Sue Durant; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mrs Sue Durant. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Durant, Sue
Rights Holder: Durant, Sue
Ashlar, Render, Stone, Timber, Medieval Court House, Tudor Civil, Law Court, Legal Site, Jettied House, Monument (By Form), Jettied Building, Timber Framed Building, Timber Framed House, House, Domestic, Dwelling, Office, Unassigned, Building
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