The Priory
THE PRIORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166471
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166471
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford and Stoke Prior
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 52258 56597
Details
STOKE PRIOR CP AND STOKE PRIOR SO 55 NW STOKE PRIOR (DET) CP 2/108 The Priory 11.6.59 GV II House. C14 origins, altered and extended C17 and circa 1800. Part sandstone rubble with brick dressings, part timber-framed with painted brick infill; slate roofs with bridge ridge end stacks. It is of half H-shaped plan with the wings extending to the west and an external rubble chimney at the north end of the main range. During the C17 it was probably heightened and an additional wing added to the north. Two storeys and attic. Framing: north- west wing has a collar and tie-beam truss with three struts and a V-strut in the apex at its gable end. North wing has three rows of panels from sill to wall-plate. East front elevation: three bays. Windows in the outer bays have narrow timber lintels and there are large 16-pane sashes on the ground floor and smaller 9-pane sashes on the first floor. The central first floor window has a round-arched brick head and a 6-pane window. The central entrance has a gabled timber porch on timber posts, a doorway with a moulded architrave and a 6-panelled door (four panels are raised and fielded, the central two have been glazed). Attic lights at south gable end. The north and south walls of the south-west wing each have a blocked C14 pointed window and there is a further blocked medieval opening at the gable end of the north-west wing. The north wing has a C17 diamond-mullioned window of four lights at its gable end. Lean-to additions to north-west and north-east. The building is said to have originally belonged to Leominster Priory. (RCHM, Herefs III, p 188, item 4; BoE, p 293).
Listing NGR: SO5225856597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 188
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 293
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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