The Priory
THE PRIORY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091902
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091902
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Prestbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 96955 24018
Details
SO 9624 PRESTBURY HIGH STREET (north side)
17/69 The Priory
GV II
Semi-detached house, formerly one house (q.v. The Little Priory, Mill Street). C14, C16-early C17, and C18. Close-studded timber framing with some bracing, pebble-dashed infill exposed at first floor level of three left-hand bays. Ground floor now mostly random squared and dressed limestone. Left gable end timber- framed. Five bays to right coursed squared and dressed limestone. Stone slate roof. Ashlar stacks one restored C20. Rectangular main body with C18 range at right-angles rear right now under a separate ownership. Two storeys and attic lit by four hipped roof dormers with hung slate. Nine-windowed facade lit by single and 2- light steel casements with leaded panes. Central C20 plank door within a flat-chamfered stone surround. Single-storey lean-to at left gable end. Stepped coping at right gable end. Axial and gable-end stacks. Two hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned cross windows with cinquefoil headed lights and carved spandrels to first floor at right gable end. Interior; two rooms with C17 panelling. Fluted frieze above panelling in downstairs room. Large open fireplace with bressumer beam. Tie beams with deep flat chamfers. According to David Verey the house incorporates a C14 hall of four bays, formerly single- storeyed and open to the roof. The arch-braced collar beam trusses now mostly cut back. One brace with a bowtell moulding springing from a semi-octagonal wall post with a moulded capital was present in 1975. Limited interior inspection. History; By 1538 the house known to be in the ownership of Llanthony Priory and was called the manor house or rectory. (David Verey, The Buildings of England; The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1980)
Listing NGR: SO9695524018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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