Flowton Priory
FLOWTON PRIORY, WEST COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347198
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Flowton Priory
- Statutory Address:
- FLOWTON PRIORY, WEST COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347198
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Flowton Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLOWTON PRIORY, WEST COMMON
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:
- FLOWTON PRIORY, WEST COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harpenden Town
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13504 13104
Details
TL 11 SW HARPENDEN WEST COMMON (west side) HARPENDEN
5/81 Flowton Priory
II
House. An early C16 Priory, moved from Ipswich in 1925, extended and altered in same style, and sold in 1933. Timber frame. C20 red brick nogging and plinth; upper floor with plaster infill. Plain tile roof. Long, 2-storey range, lying SW-NE, the entrance at the NE end. Single storey and attic T-shaped extension at SW end. Leaded casement windows throughout. Entrance side has wide door arch with a bracketed 5-light oriel above. Left side has 2 2-light casements on ground floor and above these 2 smaller original 2-light casements. Right side is a projecting gable end with jettied upper floor and gable. Curved tension braces. Canted C20 ground floor window; 3-light upper floor casement. NW elevation has 2 gable ends similar to front one,the left one with an 8-light ground floor casement and 4-light upper window, the right one with a 1st floor square jettied oriel flanked by early ovolo-mullioned 2-light casements. 5-casement windows in centre. The gable jetties have C17-style strapwork consoles. Some original carved wood lintels. SE elevation has 3 gable ends in stepped formation. The centre one is to a late-C17 stairwell, but the detail is C16 style. Right gable has a 2-storey square window bay. C16 mullioned window to left of stair bay. Left gable has mullioned and transomed ground floor lights and a 1st floor square oriel flanked by small C16 lights. Similar consoles and carved lintels to NW side. Interior displays original floor beams,and wall partitions. N ground floor room with good early C16 stone fireplace surround and hood. Some C16 stained glass heraldry, including arms of Cardinal Wolsey. Late C17 staircase with replacement balusters. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL1350413104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163615
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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