The Old Priory
THE OLD PRIORY, PRIEST BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316819
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD PRIORY, PRIEST BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316819
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD PRIORY, PRIEST BANK
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 PRIORY, PRIEST BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kildwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 01468 46202
Details
SE 04 NW KILDWICK PRIEST BANK (east side)
1/25 The Old Priory (formerly listed as Priests Bank Top 10.9.54 and Priests Bank
GV II
Two cottages, now one house. Mid C17, restored 1899, the two buildings united and restored 1953 by W. Olivant. Coursed gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roofs. Quoins. The main building, of 2 storeys and 3 bays (formerly Priests Bank Top), has a C20 recessed entrance bay to right, linking it to the gable end of the former Priests Bank Cottage, also of 2 storeys and 3 bays. Main building: central single-storey porch, the doorway with chamfered quoins reduced to a window C20; bulbous kneelers and gable coping; a reset stone spout projects above the lintel. Flanking 2- light chamfered mullion windows, the sills lowered and openings altered C19. First floor: small 3-light recessed chamfered mullion window of unusual form; the 3 lights have curved heads, the taller central light having a lancet form, the hoodmould above is ogee-curved. Below the window a projecting string terminates above projecting stone spouts. External stack to left gable. Rear: two 2-light windows, blocked, all possibly reset; C20 extension to left (not of special interest). Left return: massive stepped external stack with stone spouts at roof level, the top of the shaft rebuilt; small chamfered first-floor window at eaves level, right. Inserted mullion windows to right return. Interior: large arched fireplace to left gable end with separate voussoirs. Former cottage, south face: half-glazed C20 door to right of centre in C19 chamfered surround; flanking 4-light recessed chamfered mullion windows to ground floor; similar 3-light windows to first floor. Large C19 single-light window to ground floor, left. Stone gutter brackets; end stack to left, and to right to rear of ridge. Left return: plaque with raised lettering, "Restored AD 1899 R.H.F.W.W." The site of the house is important, at the junction of the road from the grange of Bolton Abbey (q.v.) where it divides to lead to the church (down Priests Bank) or Kildwick Hall (q.q.v). The very extensive 1899 restoration included alterations to the main building's ground-floor windows (possibly their removal to the first floor of the cottage) and alterations to the central bay; the stone spouts are similar to those on the Kildwick Hall pavilion (q.v.) but here do not serve any function (apart from those on the chimney stack). The dormer window is not a vernacular feature and was possibly built in imitation of those at Kildwick Hall (q.v.). The initials are those of Richard Henry Francis Wharton Wilson, then owner of Kildwick Hall.
Listing NGR: SE0146846202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324753
- 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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