THE PRIORY BARN

THE PRIORY BARN, NEWTOWN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1364527
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: THE PRIORY BARN
Statutory Address:: THE PRIORY BARN, NEWTOWN

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Date:: 2001-07-15
Reference:: IOE01/02986/07
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1364527
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: THE PRIORY BARN
Statutory Address 1:: THE PRIORY BARN, NEWTOWN

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 BARN, NEWTOWN

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:: ST 82473 61065

Details

1. NEWTOWN 5411 (South Side)

The Priory Barn (Formerly listed as Tithe Barn in Priory grounds) ST 8261 1/40 18.4.52.

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2. Tithe barn formerly in the grounds of the Priory. Late medieval, much altered towards the street and divided into 2 storeys. Rubble with stone-tiled roof. The south east elevation (facing garden) is divided into 8 bays by 2-stage buttresses with weather mouldings. Single-stage angle buttress at left hand corner. Plinth course. Doorways with "flattened" pointed arches at 1st, 3rd and 6th bays from left, the last-named being wider to accommodate double doors. Wooden doors with nail-heads and moulded vertical strips. Windows are on two levels, 2 4-light and 1 2-light, all with leaded panes, concave moulded stone mullions and cinque-foiled lights under square heads. At 1st floor height in 8th bay narrow internally splayed loop. Each end elevation is gabled, one with square ashlar stack at apex and the other with carved saddle stone. Road elevation stands high above road level on "battered" stone revetment wall. There is one "flat-arched" doorway towards left.

Priory Lodge with its boundary walls, the Priory Barn and Nos 1A to 3 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8247761072

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Legacy System number:: 312625
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.