The Priory Including Adjoining Wall on the North East 6582 6435
THE PRIORY INCLUDING ADJOINING WALL ON THE NORTH EAST 6582 6435
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117130
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1947
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory Including Adjoining Wall on the North East 6582 6435
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY INCLUDING ADJOINING WALL ON THE NORTH EAST 6582 6435
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117130
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1947
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory Including Adjoining Wall on the North East 6582 6435
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY INCLUDING ADJOINING WALL ON THE NORTH EAST 6582 6435
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 INCLUDING ADJOINING WALL ON THE NORTH EAST 6582 6435
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beech Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 70817 64340
Details
BEECH HILL SU 76 SW 7/1 The Priory including adjoining wall on the north east 6582:6435. 14.4.47 G.V. II*
Large country house. C16 extended 1648, altered C18. Mostly brick but with some timber framing in older part with brick infill; old tile roofs gabled, and one half hipped. Irregular plan. Part 2 storeys and part 2 storeys and attics. Two large C17 chimneys with offset heads and stepped bases on front part, 3 large chimneys on rear part. Entrance south east front: triple gabled, brick plinth, moulded brick first floor string and similar string at base of gables; dentilled eaves and cornice carried over gables. 2 storey central entrance porch with similar brick detailing on gable, glazed door in brick doorcase with broken segmental pediment over and date panel of 1648. Each gable has a 2- light attic casement. 3 bays of sash windows with glazing bars to the left of porch and to right 3 upper bays of similar sashes over 2 lower bays. North east front: a long wing with 7 bays of sash windows with glazing bars on first floor, irregular casements below, and with large C17 chimney between the first and second bays from the right. There is a C17 brick wall with a deep weathered top at right angles to and adjoining this front approximately 2 metres high and 40 metres long. North west front: the oldest part, partly timber framed. 2 storeys and 2 storeys with attics. Very irregular fenestration with sash windows with glazing bars, some leaded casements, and three C16 diamond mullioned windows on ground floor. Interior: good early C18 panelling in hall and dining room divided by Doric pilasters. Some early C16 panelling on first floor landing and in alcove over entrance porch. A mid-C17 open well stair with turned balusters, moulded handrail and square chamfered newels In the 2 principal bedrooms on the first floor there are 2 fine mid C17 chimney pieces with pilasters and Ionic capitals, garlands, friezes, and overmantels with volutes down from halved Ionic pilasters. B.0.E. (Berkshire) p.85.
Listing NGR: SU7081764340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39977
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 85
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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