The Priory
THE PRIORY, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061251
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, CHAPEL LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061251
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, CHAPEL LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 85060 18728
Details
SK 8418 - 8518 WYMONDHAM CHAPEL LANE
(east side) 14/148 The Priory
II
House. Late C17, with C19 and mid C20 additions and alterations. Coursed and squared ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings and Collyweston slate roof. 4 stone gable stacks, 2 of them with C19 Tudor style patterned pots, and a capped external gable stack. Flush ashlar quoins. 3 bay south front, 2 storeys plus attics, has a central C19 gabled porch with a chamfered 4 centred arched doorway flanked on either side by a 3 light mullioned window with moulded mullions and flat hood, each with a central glazing bar sash flanked by single fixed lights. Beyond, to the left, a small buttress. Above, a central 2 light mullioned casement with above, a small cross eaves gable, flanked on either side by a 3 light mullioned casement. All with moulded mullions. Above again, 2 C19 gabled dormers each with a round headed casement. East side has a C20 parapeted flat roofed porch with a 4 centred arched door. To its right, a C19 gabled wing with a central recessed C20 casement flanked on either side by a 3 light mullioned casement, all under a continuous hood mould. Above, similar fenestration with a blank central window. Above, to left, a C17 2 light mullioned casement. East side, to street, has to left a 3 light casement and to right a smaller mullioned casement. Above, a squat off-centre 3 light mullioned casement flanked to left by a taller 3 light casement and to right bya single casement, all with flat hoods. Above again, to left, a gabled dormer with a 2 light mullioned casement with hood mould.
Listing NGR: SK8506018728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189905
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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