The Priory
THE PRIORY, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1308731
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1308731
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, CHURCH ROAD
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, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield Peverel
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 79629 10854
Details
TL 71 SE HATFIELD PEVEREL CHURCH ROAD (south side)
5/55 The Priory 18.5.78
GV II*
Large house. C.1770. Possibly by John Phillips, for John Wright, historian of Essex. Gault brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. Square double pile plan facing N, with 2 internal stacks. 2 storeys and cellars. Central part breaks forward in 1:3:1 arrangement, 4 original sashes of 12 and 8 lights on ground floor, 5 original sashes of 3 and 6 lights on first floor, all with flat brick arches, and much crown glass. Central glazed double doors in plaster doorcase with pediment on scrolled brackets. 2 flights of 10 stone steps with scrolled tread ends and cast iron railing, incomplete. Modillioned cornice, plain parapet, hipped roof of shallow pitch. The S (garden) elevation is similar, except that a French window replaces the entrance, and there are no equivalent stairs. The ground floor rooms are symmetrically arranged, except for stair hall to right of entrance hall. The entrance hall has on the left wall a plaque in low relief by L. Delvaue, c.1725, and on the rear wall 3 roundels in low relief of William III, Alfred the Great and George II, with garlands, and 4 painted plaster escutcheons of the Wright family. All interior details are original, including doors with egg-and-dart bordered panels, eared doorcases with carved cresting, pine dados with egg-and-dart borders, folding internal shutters, carved fire surrounds, plaster cornices. The original windows are of mahogany. Accurate restoration in progress at time of survey, January 1985.
Listing NGR: TL7962910854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115396
- 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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