The Priory
THE PRIORY, 99, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163592
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, 99, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163592
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, 99, 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, 99, 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:
- Guilden Morden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27778 43279
Details
Tl 2643 GUILDEN MORDEN HIGH STREET (East side)
17/117 No 99 (The Priory)
GV II
House, formerly a farmhouse. C15 with late C17 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed and roughcast rendered. Plain tiled roofs. Side stack to left hand and ridge stack to right hand of central range of red brick with vertical brick band set diagonally and with an additional flue to right hand. Two storeys forming an irregular H-plan. Main range an original open hall of two bays with further bay possibly two storeyed to the south, modified as a cross wing in the C17. Cross wing to the north obliquely sited in C19 beside the boundary. West facade: Two-panelled C19 door to left hand of main range, three ground floor and four first floor hung sash windows with margin glazing bars, (two C18 iron casement windows with leaded lights in rear elevation). Interior: Two bay open hall with C17 inserted chimney stack to south in original cross passage position and with intersecting framed floors. Cambered tie beam to display truss with solid bracing, plain chamfers, and mortice for crown post. Closed truss to north with weathered timbers above tie beam indicating an external wall; chamfered wall plates with edge halved and bridled scarf joints; three pairs of rafters in situ, smoke blackened formerly with collars and evidence of a louvre on two randomly sited rafters; roof reconstructed with wind braced, side purlins. C19 details and boxed staircase to north cross wing, double cupboards with raised and field panels in room to south. C19 tiled floor.
RCHM report 1950
Listing NGR: TL2777843279
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52522
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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