The Old Hall and The Priory
The Old Hall, 44 and 44A, Priory Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314582
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall and The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Hall, 44 and 44A, Priory Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314582
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall and The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Hall, 44 and 44A, Priory Road
- Statutory Address 2:
- The Priory, 46, Priory 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 Old Hall, 44 and 44A, Priory Road
- Statutory Address:
- The Priory, 46, Priory Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ecclesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 35254 94262
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SK39SE
11/152
ECCLESFIELD
PRIORY ROAD (east side)
Nos 44 and 44A (The Old Hall) and No 46 (The Priory)
(formerly listed as Eccles field Priorty (No 46))
25.2.52
II*
Former priory and house, now three dwellings. c1300 chapel block with altered contemporary crosswing and C19 restoration, house dated 1736. Sandstone : chapel block thinly coursed rubble, crosswing coursed and squared, house ashlar. Tiled roofs, stone slate to crosswing.
Irregular range : chapel block three storeys, two bays with two storey crosswing with single-bay gable set back to left. House to left three storeys, five bays with two storey single-bay addition to its left.
Chapel block : large quoins, set-back offset buttresses to right. Arched door to right a square-headed loop to left and to first floor. Upper floor with two-light trefoil-headed window to right, and single cusped lancet to left, both with leaded lights.
Crosswing : tall three-light cavetto-moulded mullion and transom window to ground floor, the central light a door. Hoodmould with square stops, Similar tall three-light window above with round-headed central light, hoodmould. Gable copings and ball finial.
House : chamfered plinth. Central part-glazed door in chamfered quoined surround, dated lintel. All ground and first floor bays with cross-mullioned wood casements beneath flat arches. Three second floor windows of two lights set beneath eaves. Lower two-storey addition to left has one three-light casement to each floor.
Right return : chapel to left has lancet window beneath east window of three trefoil.headed lancets under one arch, hoodmould. C19 stack to right at eaves has twin conical shafts. To right, in angle with crosswing, an external stack with shaped shaft. Crosswing to right has small C18 flat-roofed single-storey porch with panelled door and an oeil-de-bouef to its right. Above, two cavetto-moulded three-light mullion windows. To upper floor a cross-mullioned window to left and a (-light window to right with transom. Blocked upper floor doorway to right with chamfered quoined surround.
Interior : Chapel : piscina beneath south window, fitted aumbry in rear wall opposite. Crosswing : original pointed doorway into chapel. C19 tiled fireplaces depicting The Priory, Ecclesfield Church and scenes of St. Wandrille. Barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling in first floor room with acanthus and grape motifs in relief panels.
Ecclesfield Priory was an alien cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Wardrille in Normandy.
Listing NGR: SK3526494264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335475
- 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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