The Priory
THE PRIORY, LONG STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290900
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, LONG STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290900
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, LONG 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, LONG STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dursley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75877 98288
Details
DURSLEY LONG STREET ST 7598 (north side) 5/32 The Priory 30.6.52 II
Large country house, now offices. Dated 1520 for E. Webb; early C19 additions for Frederick Vizard; C20 alterations and additions. Random and coursed rubble limestone; rendered rear wing; ashlar dressings; stone slate and plain tile roofs. Two-storey with attic and cellar; 3-storey addition; 2-storey with attic rear wing to form L-plan. Front: C16 part to right with off-centre 2- storey parapet gabled porch; moulded Tudor-arched doorway with spandrels containing initials EW and numerals MCXX; hoodmould over and pair of 4-panel doors reached up flight of semi-circular stone steps. Upper floor recessed cavetto cross window with hoodmould above doorway; quatrefoil gable vent. Fenestration otherwise scattered: two large 4-light recessed cavetto mullioned casements with hoodmoulds to right of porch with 3 leaded timber cross windows to upper floor. Left of porch 3-light recessed cavetto mullioned casement with hood, 6-light leaded timber mullioned and transomed casement over. Two gabled roof dormers. Three-window fenestration to addition to left, all with keyed segmental arches. Large segmental arch to former carriageway with C20 glazed infill. South-east side: C19 rebuilt parapet gable end of front block to left with projecting central chimney stack; Tudor-arched glazed door to right with 12-pane Tudor-arched sash over, both with hoodmoulds. Wing to right has 5-window 12-pane sash fenestration all with plain keyed architraves, and further Tudor-arched glazed door. Rendered elevation further right with lower pitched roof is later C19 addition: 2-window fenestration, 12-pane sashes to upper floor and pairs of 12-pane sashes to ground floor. Flat-roofed Tudor-style addition at end of wing. Rear elevation largely obscured by C20 office additions which are not of special interest. Interior has fine panelled room in front block with Jacobean chimney-piece. Another panelled room with latin inscription on frieze. In mid C19 a stone-vaulted crypt was removed, but contemporary local newspaper illustratons indicate that it dated from C15 or earlier, suggesting a religious use for this building. Mid-late C18 gazebo stands in terraced garden to north east (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST7587798288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394341
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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