Priory Hotel
PRIORY HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159973
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159973
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY HOTEL, 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:
- PRIORY HOTEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80192 20822
Details
SP 8020 WHITCHURCH HIGH STREET (east side)
9/215 Priory Hotel (formerly listed as The Priory)
25.10.51
GV II*
Hotel. C15, altered mid C16 and later, renovated early C20. Timber frame, some old brick infill to ground floor, remainder renewed. Coursed rubble stone plinth. Tiled roof, Flanking chimneys each have 2 square shafts set diagonally, that to left of thin brick on an external stone stack, that to right C19-C20. Smaller brick chimney to centre. 2 storeys and cellars, the first floor jettied to front on beam ends. 6 bays. Early C20 diamond-leaded casements: 3 3-light and 2 4-light with cornice blind cases to ground floor; 5 2-light and 2 3-light to first floor. Small barred wooden casements to cellars in bays to right of centre. Central old board and stud door in moulded wooden frame with square head. Matching C19-C20 extension with jettied first floor set back to right. Other C18 and C19 stone and brick extensions to rear. Interior: bays 2 and 3 originally an open hall, the fine central truss having hollow chamfered timbers and large curved braces forming wide 2-centred arch with 4-centred tracery in spandrels. Floor inserted C16, the lower room having finely moulded cross beams and cornice. 3 bays to right have chamfered spine beams and heavy joists, and one curved brace supporting a tie beam. Central fireplace has re-used and reproduction C17 panelling. Similar panelling re-sited in C19-C20 entrance lobby to far right. RCHM II p.326 Mon. 5.
Listing NGR: SP8019220822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42363
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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