Cowshed about 60 metres south of Priory Farmhouse

Cowshed about 60 metres south of Priory Farmhouse, Mill Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318445
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1966
List Entry Name:: Cowshed about 60 metres south of Priory Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Cowshed about 60 metres south of Priory Farmhouse, Mill Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318445
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: Cowshed about 60 metres south of Priory Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Cowshed about 60 metres south of Priory Farmhouse, Mill Lane

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:: Cowshed about 60 metres south of Priory Farmhouse, Mill Lane

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Maiden Bradley with Yarnfield
National Grid Reference:: ST 79951 40324

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 7 September 2022 to amend the description, remove instructions for address amendment and superfluous source details and to reformat the text to current standards

ST 74 SE 1/101 MAIDEN BRADLEY MILL LANE (south side) Cowshed about 60 metres south of Priory Farmhouse

(formerly listed as Cowshed about 75 metres south west of Priory Farmhouse, previously listed as Remains of Augustinian Priory)

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GV II Hall house and gatehouse, now disused cowshed. C15, altered C19 and C20. Rubble stone, corrugated asbestos roof, formerly thatched, two truncated external lateral stone stacks. Two-storey. North west side has planked door to right, large Tudor-arched blocked opening, former gateway, to left, Tudor-arched chamfered doorway and square-headed chamfered doorway to centre, the latter three openings within C20 covered yard. First floor has two two-light chamfered mullioned windows to left, three chamfered single blocked windows and Tudor-arched planked door to right, small canopied image niche over centre Tudor-arched doorway. Rear, facing south east, has large Tudor-arched blocked doorway, former gateway to right, blocked square-headed doorway and three C19 segmental-headed windows. First floor has two chamfered lights, two blocked pointed lights and open doorway, two truncated external stacks. C19 lean-to extension to left return.

Interior has C19 cowstalls to ground floor, C19 ceiling and first floor. First floor retains roof of five-bay hall house; two arch-braced collar trusses with chamfered soffits to east, three collar and tie-beam trusses with cranked collars and lower king struts to west, two tiers of purlins with curved windbracing, chamfered to three eastern bays only. Two added bays to west end, single-storey only. Two inserted, blocked stone fireplaces to south wall; west one post-dating a pointed window.

Represents part of a C12 women's leprosy hospital founded by Manasser Biset, steward to Henry II, before 1164, became a small Augustinian Priory in 1190. At the Dissolution there were five canons and the lands of the priory were then acquired by the Seymour family. This building is probably late medieval, of several phases and was on the south side of the domestic ranges.

Listing NGR: ST7995140324

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 321207
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1956)

Legal

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