The Priory

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RUSHLAKE GREEN WARBLETON The Priory Hotel (formerly listed as Priory Farmhouse)

TQ 61 NW 8/720

The address shall be amended to read

RUSHLAKE GREEN

TQ 61 NW 8/720 The Priory

II*(STAR)

The description should be amended to read

House, incorporating Abbot's Lodging. Immediately post Dissolution (1536) and C1413. Ashlar sandstone re-used from monastic church to front pile, timber framed with plaster in-fill, English bond red brick underbuild to 1412 rear, old tile roofs. 2 storey, 3 bay, 2 cell plan to front pile, 2 storey 2 cell plan at rear. Front pile has 2 ground floor 3-light, one first floor 2-light - and one single light chamfered straight headed mullioned windows, C20 leaded casements. One C20 first floor 3-light oak framed flush casement. Central re-used C15 2-centred gothic arch, chamfered, brick reveals. Hipped roof with gablets, central brick stack. Both returns have single ground floor 4-light chamfered mullioned and transomed casement windows. Chamfered plinth, set off buttress at south-east. Rear wing of C1413 has C18 underbuild with 2 segmental arched windows, 2 door openings, one blocked. First floor has close set studwork with plaster infill, 4 sets of C20 casements in earlier unmoulded openings. Off- centre in-built brick stack. Tile hung service additions at north west with outshut roofs. Interior: front pile has lobby entrance plan with 2 heated chambers, fireplaces with stone cheeks, chamfered wooden bresummers. Tiled floor in room at south-east. Framed rear wall, with stairs in extra bay towards C1413 build. Ridgeless through purlin roof with crude Queen post struts. C1413 pile of 2 cells, presumably single storey hall and kitchen, with framed internal walls with passing braces. One first floor in situ post and panel partition. 3 bay double framed King post roof with lateral and transverse head braces, with central girder supporting collars paired to each rafter, ridgeless with through purlins. Stack originally in-built. A small priory of Augustinian or Black Canons translated here from Hastings in 1413 by Sir John Pelham, dedicated in 1417, granted at Dissolution in 1536 to Henry VIII's Attorney-General Sir John Baker. Still in the inheritence off his descendants (1986).

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WARBLETON RUSHLAKE GREEN TQ61 NW 8/720 The Priory II * (star)

The 21st line of the description (6 from end) "3 bay double framed King post roof, with lateral and transverse head braces.....' should be replaced with "3 bay double framed Crown post roof with lateral and transverse head braces ..."

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WARBLETON RUSHLAKE GREEN 1. 5208 The Priory Hotel (formerly listed as Priory Farmhouse) TQ 61 NW 8/720 30.8.66

II*

2. The Augustinian Priory of the Holy Trinity, founded in Hastings at the end of the C12 or beginning of the C13, was transferred to this site on land provided by Sir John Pelham in 1413. Of the present L-shaped farmhouse, the north wing is C15 and probably part of the Prior's Lodging. Timber-framed building, the first floor of its east front close-studded and formerly jettied but the ground floor has been underbuilt in red brick in C17. The west front is of ashlar on ground floor and tile-hung above. Tiled roof. Casement windows, with wooden mullions and diamond-shaped leaded panes. Kingpost roof. The east wing dates from the C16 after the Dissolution. Ashlar. Hipped tiled roof with sprocket eaves. Stone mullions to windows. C15 stone doorway, inserted in C19.

Listing NGR: TQ6406118135

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