THE REFECTORY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1156408
Date first listed: 25-Mar-1955
Statutory Address: THE REFECTORY, HIGH STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: THE REFECTORY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Hurley
National Grid Reference: SU 82590 84102
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
HURLEY
SU 8284-8384 HIGH STREET
(north side)
17/7 The Refectory
25.3.55
GV II*
Part of Refectory of Benedictine priory, now house. C12. altered C14,
C16, C19 and C20. Flint and rubble with brick dressings and old tile
roof. 2 storeys and attics. North front has one early C14 round-headed
arch (the other 2 are now in the ownership of the adjoining property
the Cloisters). To the right of this the other part of the front is
irregular and has a part-brick infill panel, and C20 casement windows
mostly of 2 and 3 lights. C20 roof lights. C20 entrance door and
casements on west gable. South front has C20 leaded casements and 2
3-light windows on 1st floor and One 3-light window on ground floor.
Interior has fine late mediaeval roof of 6 bays of large arch-braced
collar roof trusses with the braces moulded and chamfered. Embedded
in the wall, and now at 1st floor level, is the reused spandrel of a
later mediaeval fireplace set upside down in the wall with fine rose
carvings. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
V.C.H. Vol. III p.152 B.O.E. (BERKSHIRE) P157
Listing NGR: SU8259084102
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 40904
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 152
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 157
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing