COLNE PRIORY

COLNE PRIORY, LOWER HOLT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306123
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: COLNE PRIORY
Statutory Address:: COLNE PRIORY, LOWER HOLT STREET

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Date:: 2001-05-30
Reference:: IOE01/04165/01
Rights:: © David Guthrie. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306123
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: COLNE PRIORY
Statutory Address 1:: COLNE PRIORY, LOWER HOLT STREET

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:: COLNE PRIORY, LOWER HOLT STREET

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Earls Colne
National Grid Reference:: TL 86460 28835

Details

TL 8628-8728 EARLS COLNE LOWER HOLT STREET (north side)

9/95 Colne Priory (formerly 7.8.52 listed as Earls Colne Priory)

GV II

House. 1825 for Henry Holgate Carwardine, incorporating remains of mid-C18 house. Gothick style, in red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Originally an L-plan facing SW, with single-storey extension to SE and NE. 2 storeys. SW front has 2 ranges, the right having a steeply pitched roof, parapet wall and parapetted verges; the left range has a simple parapet rising at the corners, with low-pitched roofs behind. 2:3 window range of sashes with glazing bars, with square heads in recessed 2-centred brick arches. Those in left range have 2-centred heads with decorative glazing bars. Large 2-centred arch to entrance. White and cream chimney pots in the form of C16 grouped decorative shafts. The NW elevation has a small tower with sashes with square heads and 2-centred drip-moulds on gauged brick arches, and crenellated parapet; projecting full-height bay with arcaded ground floor of 2-centred arches. String courses. Late C19 extension has large original casements with 2-centred heads. On site of Benedictine Priory. (Wherein I Dwell, Earls Colne WEA, 1983, 69). RCHM 2.

Listing NGR: TL8646028835

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Legacy System number:: 115943
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Wherein I Dwell, (1983), 69

Legal

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