The Priory

Donnington Priory, Oxford Road, Donnington, Newbury, RG14 2JE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290927
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: The Priory
Statutory Address:: Donnington Priory, Oxford Road, Donnington, Newbury, RG14 2JE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290927
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: The Priory
Statutory Address 1:: Donnington Priory, Oxford Road, Donnington, Newbury, RG14 2JE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Donnington Priory, Oxford Road, Donnington, Newbury, RG14 2JE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shaw cum Donnington
National Grid Reference:: SU 46624 68615

Details

SU 46NE 7/50

SHAW CUM DONNINGTON OXFORD ROAD (east side) The Priory

6.6.52

GV II

House; now offices. C17 and C18 with possibly some medieval work remaining. Brick; knapped flint with brick and Bath stone dressings; and random flint and stone. Hipped slate roof with wooden dentil eaves cornice and two end stacks to right and left. Three storeys, five bays; glazing bar sashes. Projecting keystones to ground floor windows; stone architraves to second floor windows, the middle one of which is painted on. Stone plinth; plat bands between floors and oval brick panels between first floor windows. Central mid C19 Gothic porch with diagonal buttresses and carved coat of arms in parapet. Two storey, two bay c.1800 extension to left.

Interior: Early C19 staircase in oval hall with square balusters; various mid C18 fireplaces. House on site of priory founded in 1393. John Hughes, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, lived here from 1833 to 1851.

Listing NGR: SU4662468615

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 394310
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 88
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.