The Priory
THE PRIORY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127374
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127374
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1984
- 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:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horningsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49292 62314
Details
TL 4862-4962 HORNINGSEA HIGH STREET (West Side)
17/69 The Priory
GV II
House, early C16. Timber framed and plastered, cased in C19 gault brick and painted. Plain tile roofs, hipped with gablet to north. Two ridge stacks. Two storeys; T-plan. Service wing to north, first floor hall to main range with ground floor three unit plan, jettied to street. South facade; three sixteen-paned first floor hung sash windows, and two similar ground floor windows in cambered brick arches flanking six-panelled door, one large three-light window in segmental brick arch to right hand. East facade, painted brick up to cased jetty with rough cast render to timer-frame at first floor, one hung sash window and one horizontal sliding sash window. Service range has two first floor sixteen-paned hung sash windows and one blind window in chimney bay with similar blind window and larger sixteen-paned hung sash window at ground floor in cambered brick arches. Panelled entrance door to left hand in original cross passage position. Interior. Exposed, substantial timber frame with wide internal tension braces in each wall bay at first floor. Side purlin roofs. Main range with arched braced tie beams. Floor frames with stop-chamfered beams, and joists to parlour. Two hearths in central chimney bay of main range with partly demolished brick stair. Large kitchen hearth with cross passage to north and evidence of plank and muntin partition with entrances to stair and butteries. R.C.H.M.: East Cambs p. 71, mon. 19.
Listing NGR: TL4929262314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50617
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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