Priory Cottage and Priory House

PRIORY COTTAGE AND PRIORY HOUSE, 1 AND 2, NEWBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1339752
Date first listed:
16-May-1966
List Entry Name:
Priory Cottage and Priory House
Statutory Address:
PRIORY COTTAGE AND PRIORY HOUSE, 1 AND 2, NEWBURY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1339752
Date first listed:
16-May-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
18-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Priory Cottage and Priory House
Statutory Address 1:
PRIORY COTTAGE AND PRIORY HOUSE, 1 AND 2, NEWBURY ROAD

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
PRIORY COTTAGE AND PRIORY HOUSE, 1 AND 2, NEWBURY ROAD

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

County:
Hampshire
District:
Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
Parish:
Kingsclere
National Grid Reference:
SU 52518 58716

Details

SU 5258 KINGSCLERE NEWBURY ROAD SU 5259 13/9 16.5.66 No 2 (Priory House) (formerly listed as No 2)

II

Includes No 1 North Street (Priory Cottage) qv. C15, C18, early C19. Two-storeyed L-shaped block, joined as one unit. A 3-bay medieval timber-frame, with central open hall (the north face of the south side tie beam is crenellated and the south face of the upper tile beam on the north side has been cut with a chamfered 4-centre-arched doorway to indicate the insertion of the first floor in the C16); the western arm starts as a (CL7) timber-frame but continues as a C19 extension, the northern arm (north part of No 1 North Street) is also C19. The 2 fronts (south to Newbury Street and east to North Street) have 2 storeys, 2:2:2:2 windows. Hipped tile roofing, taller to the middle section, which has a catslide at the rear. Walling of painted brickwork in Flemish bond, slightly-cambered ground-floor openings, cement plinth. Sashes in exposed frames. Each doorway has a 6-panelled door in a solid frame, beneath a moulded canopy. The interior of No 2 has exposure of the massive timber-frame, and the corner ground-floor room has C18 panelling.

Listing NGR: SP5863059421

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
138186
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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