Cookhill Priory
COOKHILL PRIORY, EVESHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1096283
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Cookhill Priory
- Statutory Address:
- COOKHILL PRIORY, EVESHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1096283
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Cookhill Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOKHILL PRIORY, EVESHAM ROAD
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:
- COOKHILL PRIORY, EVESHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cookhill
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 05366 57274
Details
SP 05 NE INKBERROW CP EVESHAM ROAD (west side) Cookhill
6/89 Cookhill Priory
30.7.59
GV II*
Farmhouse incorporating remnants of Cistercian nunnery. Probably C15 with additions of 1763 and early C20. Timber-frame, mostly clad in brick; additions of brick with ahslar dressings. Front (west) range 1763 and early C20, rear range parallel to front, and slightly longer to south. West front: two storeys, brick parapet over modillioned stone cornice, stone band to ground floor, ashlar quoins; angled bay window to left, four windows to rest of front, all with moulded stone architraves and glazing-bar sashes; the three windows to the right are the early C20 addtion; ground floor: architraves have keystones, entrance immediately to right of bay has stone doorcase; Doric pilasters and segmental pediment. Interior reported to have a staircase with turned balusters and ramped hand- rail, C18 doorcases and a C18 chimneypiece. The extensive earthworks around the house are scheduled as an Ancient Monument. The nunnery was founded in C12. (VCH 3, pp 419-420; BoE p 123-4; P Reid, 1980, Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country Houses, Vol II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, London, pp 198-199).
Listing NGR: SP0536657274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148363
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 419-420
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 123-4
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 198-199
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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