Priory House
Priory House, Market Street, BA15 1LH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184124
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Priory House
- Statutory Address:
- Priory House, Market Street, BA15 1LH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184124
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Priory House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Priory House, Market Street, BA15 1LH
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 House, Market Street, BA15 1LH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford-on-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 82514 61066
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 May 2026 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
ST 8261
1/167
NEWTOWN (South Side)
MARKET STREET
Priory House
(Formerly listed as Priory Lodge)
GV
II
The surviving west wing of 'The Priory', a large house with late medieval origins which is now largely demolished. Some fragments are said to have been removed to Corsham. North front of present house is early to mid C19. Two storeys. Ashlar. Moulded cornice and parapet. Hipped slate roof. Three slender Gothic buttresses, with one offset each, divide the front. The buttresses have moulded tops and cusped pointed inset panels. Two windows per floor with four-centred traceried heads inside square-headed openings. Rectangular hood-moulds over. Sashes with Gothic glazing bars intact to first-floor. Ground-floor windows filled with plate-glass, bottom halves cut away for two large garage doors below. External wooden stair to east side where the exposed broken masonry of the demolished parts of the house still remains.
Priory House with its boundary walls, the Priory Barn and Nos 1A to 3 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: ST8248661033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312623
- 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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