The Priory

THE PRIORY, THE CHIPPING

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1089654
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1954
Statutory Address:
THE PRIORY, THE CHIPPING
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Date:
2005-03-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1089654
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1954
Statutory Address 1:
THE PRIORY, THE CHIPPING

Location

Statutory Address:
THE PRIORY, THE CHIPPING

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
Tetbury
National Grid Reference:
ST 89092 93317

Details

ST 8893-8993 TETBURY THE CHIPPING (west side)

7/131 The Priory 6.9.54

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Large detached town house, now an old people's home. 1767 by Matthew Sloper, with C19 additional wing to north. Coursed rubble stone faced to east in ashlar, til roof, large ashlar stacks with moulded cornices. L-shape C18 block with additional north wing forming large rectangle. 3 storeys. Classical main front to east with moulded stone cornice and dentils and balustraded parapet, and pediment with circular window in tympanum over central 3 bays which break forward slightly. Ground floor has 6 plate glass sashes in plain reveals and central round-headed doorway with moulded architrave and keystone and C20 glazed door. Lst floor has 7 windows, 12-pane sashes, the central 3 with stone architraves, pulvinated friezes, cornices and pediments, and balustraded aprons. 2nd floor has 7 similar in plain reveals. Wide string courses between floors. Some internal joinery remaining on ground floor - shutters, panelling etc. Garden front to north of C19 has double canted bays and single storey Jacobean linking unit, all with large stone mullion and transom windows.

Listing NGR: ST8908293326

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128407
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