Priors Court

PRIORS COURT

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1349085
Date first listed:
18-Nov-1952
Statutory Address:
PRIORS COURT

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Date:
2002-04-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1349085
Date first listed:
18-Nov-1952
Statutory Address 1:
PRIORS COURT

Location

Statutory Address:
PRIORS COURT

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Aylton
National Grid Reference:
SO 66515 38045

Details

AYLTON CP - SO 63 NE

5/5 Prior's Court

18.11.52

- II

House. Probably late C17 and late C19 with earlier origins, restored in 1980s. Brick and timber-framed with tiled roofs, two side stacks, one to rear of main range, the other to left of cross-wing. L-plan with single storey range, perhaps with medieval origins, aligned north-west/south-east and C17 cross-wing of two storeys over cellar attached at north-west end with C17 wing altered in late C19 attached at rear of south-east end (under- going remodelling at time of resurvey December 1984). South-west elevation: one plus three windows with late C20 casements; gable front of C17 cross-wing to left has brick plinth to ground floor and above timber-framing three panels high (to tie-beam) in which are set a pair of casements on ground and first floors and a single casement in the gable attic beneath V-struts; on the left side is a brick stack; main range to the right has three regularly spaced late C19 dormers, four casements to ground floor with exposed timber-framing to the right, brick to the left and a late C20 brick entrance porch at the junction of the two wings; large rear stone stack serves an open fireplace with segmental stone arch, reputedly late medieval. (RCHM, Vol II, p 9).

Listing NGR: SO6651538045

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Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 9

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