THE PRIORY BARN

Overview

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

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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.

II* GV

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

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
312625
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

End of official listing

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Date: 15 Jul 2001
Reference: IOE01/02986/07
Rights: Copyright IoE Mr David Wood. Source Historic England Archive
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