The Priory
THE PRIORY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074872
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074872
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, MAIN STREET
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Owston and Newbold
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 77496 07960
Details
OWSTON SK 70 NE MAIN STREET (West Side)
2/79 The Priory
19.10.51
GV II
House, formerly Vicarage. Mid Cl7 with mid Victorian additions now forming entrance front. Finely coursed ironstone rubble with white ashlar dressings, and stone tiled roof. Two storeyed with attic. Victorian entrance front with service wing recessed to left, and projecting full height porch with replaced or recut C15 doorway with hollow chamfered four-centred arch. Single window above beneath coped gable. Porch has gathered and stepped buttresses. To its right a broader gable with tall 4-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed window lighting stairs, and 3-light stone mullioned window to right, 2-lights above. West side has expressed chimney in Victorian range, and gable end of original house, with a Victorian mullioned window, one on each floor. Apex of gable is filled with white ashlar. South front represents the original Cl7 building; symmetrical about a central doorway, C15 with hollow chamfered four-centred archway. Flanking it are Victorian canted bay windows with stone mullions and transoms and parapets. To either side of the bays the plinth is dropped to take the former window openings, the quoins of which may still partially be seen. 3 and 2-light ovolo moulded mullions to first floor, which is partially of white ashlar. These windows appear to be Victorian renewals. Centrally placed, a small coped gabled dormer with roof that springs high above the eaves level and containing a 2-light window and sundial in the apex. Sundial carries a date, almost illegible but may be 1649. Central stack with 4 stone shafts. Coped gables.
Listing NGR: SK7749607960
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190607
- 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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