The Priory
THE PRIORY, 34 AND 36, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176057
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, 34 AND 36, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176057
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, 34 AND 36, 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, 34 AND 36, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6823134814
Details
ST6834NW
8/114
BRUTON CP
HIGH STREET (South side)
Nos.34 and 36 (The Priory)
24.3.61
GV II*
Formerly Priory Court House, now offices. C15 modified. Local stone cut and squared, ground floor; jettied timber
frame first floor, covered with rendering ashlar lined; stone slate roof between stepped coped gables; brick end
chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attics; 6 bays irregular fenestration. To ground floor, ovolo-mould timber frame
windows with plain sash inserts and label moulds over; 4-light bay 1; 3-light bays 4 and 6; chamfered cambered arch
doorway with C19 part glazed door bay 2, and similar door bay 5; corbelled pilasters to ends and centre first floor,
with carved animals supporting heraldic shields (said to refer to John Henton, Prior of Bruton, 1448-1498); between
these cover mould to projecting end beams and cill string course, and some moulded vertical posts, all timber; 3-light
oriel window with plain sashes to upper bay 1, otherwise upper windows are 2-light ovolo mould frames with plain
sashes, under label mouldings: 2 C20 pitched roof dormers with small pane windows in roof. Interior not seen, but
reported are the jowled posts carrying first floor ceiling bears and a frayed ceiling with double roll moulding at West
end, and roof with tenoned purlins and curved windbraces; otherwise much of the internal work is C19 re-arrangement.
(Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972; VAG Report, Unpublished SRO, February 1975).
Listing NGR: ST6823134814
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261588
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1975)
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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