The Priory
THE PRIORY, 32, LOWER ODCOMBE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241749
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, 32, LOWER ODCOMBE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241749
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, 32, LOWER ODCOMBE
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, 32, LOWER ODCOMBE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Odcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 50966 15781
Details
ST5015 ODCOMBE CP LOWER ODCOMBE (West side) 10/264 No 32 (The Priory) (formerly listed as The Odcombe Inn) 19.4.61 GV II House at end of row, formerly inn. C17. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; thatched roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows; upper bay 1 is 2-light in a chamfered recess, the remainder in wave-mould recesses, 3-light above 4-light below, but with no window to lower bay 1; lower windows with labels; some upper lights retain rectangular-leaded panes: between bays 2 and 3 a cambered arched doorway in rectangular recess, under deep lintol with square label. Small stairlight in north gable. Interior not seen but reported are plain chamfered beams; two fireplaces, one a cambered-arched stone surround, one with timber beam, both below, and a further cambered-arched fireplace in the 'Priest's room'; some elm plank partitioning; open collar-trussed roofs. Date of opening as an inn not known, it closed in 1964. (SSAVBRG Report, unpublished SRO, March 1982).
Listing NGR: ST5055216553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440759
- 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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