Heywood House Preparatory School the Priory
HEYWOOD HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, PRIORY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363947
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Heywood House Preparatory School the Priory
- Statutory Address:
- HEYWOOD HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, PRIORY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363947
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Heywood House Preparatory School the Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEYWOOD HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, PRIORY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE PRIORY, PRIORY STREET
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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.
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:
- HEYWOOD HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, PRIORY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, PRIORY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87202 70616
Details
CORSHAM PRIORY STREET ST 87 70 (south side) 5/350 The Priory (Heywood House Preparatory School) 20.12.60 GV II
House, 1776, ashlar fronted with hipped, double-valley mansard stone tiled roof and ashlar ridge stacks. Two storeys and attic, with formal Palladian north front, 1-3-1 bays with projecting pedimented centre, cornice and parapet to sides, raised plinth and band and glazing bar sash windows, 6-pane to attic 12-pane elsewhere. Central door in Roman Doric pedimented surround. Coursed rubble side walls with parapet ramped down and 2 hipped attic dormers. Dripcourse over upper windows. West side, 3-window range, with upper 12-pane sashes flanking blank centre window, floor band and ground floor 15-pane sash, blank window and 12-pane sash. Basement under with 2-light mullion window and dripstone. East side has 2 window range and outside stack to left. Twelve- pane sashes with dripstones over lower pair but no band. Interior: centre rear stair with column newels. Ground floor front rooms with plaster friezes and cornices. House is on the site of the parsonage, associated with the rectory manor recorded at Domesday, held by St Stephen's Abbey, Caen in Cll, Marmoutier Abbey in C12, Tickford Priory, Bucks in C14 and Syon Abbey, Middlesex in C15. After the Dissolution it was held to c1570 by R. Bellott and from c1570 to 1738 by the Smyth or Smith family. Manor purchased 1738 by R. Neale who sold the house to H. Pullen of Bath in 1776 who rebuilt it. (H. Brakspear, Corsham n.d. 12-14 (reprint Wilts.Arch.Mag.43 511- 39).
Listing NGR: ST8720270616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315378
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brakspear, H, Corsham, (), 12-14
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Vol. 43, (1869), 511-39
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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