THE PRIORY, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL WITH 2 GATEPIERS TO LEFT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345924
Date first listed:: 18-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: THE PRIORY, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL WITH 2 GATEPIERS TO LEFT
Statutory Address:: THE PRIORY, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL WITH 2 GATEPIERS TO LEFT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345924
Date first listed:: 18-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: THE PRIORY, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL WITH 2 GATEPIERS TO LEFT
Statutory Address 1:: THE PRIORY, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL WITH 2 GATEPIERS TO LEFT

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:: THE PRIORY, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL WITH 2 GATEPIERS TO LEFT

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Barrington
National Grid Reference:: ST 38761 18278

Details

ST3818 BARRINGTON CP BARRINGTON VILLAGE

9/144 The Priory, including attached wall with 2 gatepiers to left

18.9.73

GV II*

House, a wing of which may have been a secondary dwelling or a court room. Late medieval, much refurbished and altered late C19. Coursed rubble, freestone dressings, fishscale tile roofs with crested ridges, coped verges, octagonal ashlar stacks, paired to right gable end. Pair of open halls set at right-angles to each other forming an L-plan, both later floored, refacaded late C19 in loose Gothic style. Single storey and attic, 1:3 bays, 4 gabled half-dormers to first floor, shaped gables with finials, 3-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows, each light with a 4-centred arch head, leaded lights. Five windows with similar detail on the ground floor. Porch in centre, 4-centred outer door opening, drip, carved spandrels. Attached to left of frontage a short section of high rubble wall, doorway with a pointed archway. Pair of tall ashlar gate piers with moulded caps and ball finials. Interior with fireplaces, compartmental ceiling and early roof of interest. (VAG report, unpublished SRO, November 1973).

Listing NGR: ST3876118278

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Legacy System number:: 264306
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in November, (1973)

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