The Priory
THE PRIORY, THE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1315383
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, THE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1315383
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, THE AVENUE
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, THE AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nun Monkton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 51174 57910
Details
SE 55 NW NUN MONKTON THE AVENUE (east end)
2/25 The Priory (formerly listed with "summerhouse and outbuild- 8.3.52 ings west of Church")
GV II*
House. c1660. For George Payler. Brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. U-shaped on plan with main entrance removed from centre of south facade to west facade. South facade: 2 storeys, with attics and cellars, 7 bays articulated by brick pilasters with moulded ashlar bases and capitals and plain ashlar bands. Ashlar quoins. Cellars: 6-pane fixed windows in chamfered stone frames within chamfered plinth. 5 steps to central glazed door in architrave with shell and fruit frieze and scrolled pediment, probably of C20 date. Ground floor: replacement sashes with glazing bars in flush architraves with stone sills, flat brick arches with ashlar keystones and moulded brick hoods. Ashlar band just below level of the lintel broken by windows and pilasters. First floor: replacement sashes with glazing bars in flush architraves, with stone sills, flat brick arches and ashlar keystones. Mid C18 lead rainwater heads. Pilasters support paired consoles which carry overhanging eaves of hipped roof. Attics: 4-pane sashes to hipped-roofed dormers. Corniced end and axial stacks. Left-hand return front has Doric porch probably removed from centre of main front where it appears on a painting of 1773 by Nathan Drake. Interior: central reception room has fireplace with eared surround and relief swags and baskets of fruit. 6-fielded-panelled internal doors with swags to overdoors. Early C18 panelling and festooned closed string chimney-piece to right reception room. Mid C17 staircase with bulbous balusters and swooping handrail. Mid C18 Rococo frieze to central first- floor room. Binney M, Nun Monkton Priory, Country Life, Vol 168, Nov 6 1980. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, second edition, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE5117257910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331667
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
Country Life in 6 November, Vol. 168, (1980)
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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