Priory Farmhouse
PRIORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1116105
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1116105
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Maxstoke
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2345186834
Details
MAXSTOKE CHURCH ROAD (South side)
SP 2386 17/108
Priory Farmhouse
11/11/52
GV II*
Inner gatehouse to Priory of Augustinian Canons; converted to a house late C16. Early C14 with late C16 alterations. Squared and irregular coursed sandstone. Timber-framed with brick infill and red brick. Plain-tiled roof. Red brick ridge stack and late C16 projecting side stack on the rear, of coursed sandstone with red brick to upper courses. 2 storeys and attic. North front has 2 first floor late C16 or early C17 ovolo mullion cross-frame casements of sandstone. Another window to a gable above the doorway has a moulded stone architrave and 3-light wood cross-frame casement of C18/C19. At ground floor a doorway in early C19 rusticated stone surround. C20 plank door. 3-centred double chamfered carriageway arch, early C14, now blocked. Rear wall has opposing carriageway arch now blocked. Late C16 cross-frame casements in rear wall including one of 3 lights to first floor hall. The west gable end has mid/late C16 timber-framing of vertical studding to part of the wall and the east gable end has been rebuilt in red brick in Cl8/C19. Interior: Mid/late C16 roof in 5 bays. Through-purlins with wind bracing, cambered tie beams and raking Queen struts. Original chamfered arches of early C14 to some openings on the interior. Mid C17 staircase with symmetrically turned balusters with square newels and moulded rail. Run-through panelling reset in one room having C16 ceiling enriched with moulded main beams and painted with shields of arms. Originally at first floor and moved to ground floor. Originally the inner gatehouse with priors lodging above of the priory of Augustinian Canons founded by William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, in 1336 and consecrated in 1342. Scheduled ancient monument.
(VCH: Warwickshire, Vol IV; Buildings of England; Warwickshire: p349)
Listing NGR: SP2345186834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309013
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947)
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 349
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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