The Priory
THE PRIORY, GREENWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104152
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, GREENWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104152
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, GREENWAY
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, GREENWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 01030 87068
Details
SY 08 NW WOODBURY GREENWAY, Woodbury
2/116 The Priory - - II
Detached house. Early C19 remodelling and enlargement of a C17 house. The older parts are of plastered cob; the rest rendered brick with lath and plaster outer walls to 1st floor; 2-span gabled-end slate roofs throughout. Probably formerly a 2-room, through-passage plan house with rear wing (perhaps a barn), with a front range added in the C19 which runs parallel to the early house, thus forming a double-depth plan, each range has separate gable-ended roof, and each heated by external end stacks with off-sets; end stack to rear wing; all stacks with brick shafts. 2 storeys. - Front: (facing south away from Greenway): symmetrical 3-window range; the 1st floor is hung with variously shaped tiles arranged in formal patterns; tripartite 4:12:4 pane hornless sash windows flank a smaller central 16-pane hornless sash window. Ground floor: central doorway blocked; to either side of this a glazed garden door with traceried semi-circular top light, flanked by narrower 4-pane pointed lights, all recessed under a depressed arch. Rear: main range with two 2-light casement windows to 1st floor; another to ground floor (originally of 4 lights) to the left of the leanto glazed porch set in the angle formed by this range and the rear wing, with a glazed, latticed pointed door. Interior: a few features of the C17 house are visible including a deeply chamfered and unstopped cross ceiling beam to the left of the entrance hall; some late C17 or early C18 fielded panel doors, one with H hinges. Otherwise early C19 joinery, including a fireplace with reeded surround. Reference: photograph of the house in circa 1890, Ursula W Brighouse, Woodbury, A View from the Beacon, (1981), p.179
Listing NGR: SY0103087068
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88629
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brighouse, U W, Woodbury A View from the Beacon, (1981), 179
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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