The Priory
THE PRIORY, PRIORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377199
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, PRIORY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377199
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, PRIORY ROAD
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:
- THE PRIORY, PRIORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blythburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 45196 75336
Details
TM 47 NE BLYTHBURGH PRIORY ROAD
2/18 The Priory 25.10.51
GV II
House. C17 nucleus, considerably altered and extended in several stages in late C19/early C20 by the artist and antiquarian John Seymour Lucas RA. Timber framed, brick extension to east, the whole plastered or roughcast rendered; pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. Windows late C19/early C20 casements with square leaded panes; asymmetrical entrance porch with overhanging first floor, 4-centre arch to doorway, boarded door with cover fillets; one ground floor oriel window, 2 2-storey splayed bays, each surmounted by a gabled dormer; one dormer window and one half dormer. Original stack to west; 2 late C19/early C20 stacks with tall flues set diagonally. Attached to the west is an annexe which is largely a reconstruction of a medieval chapel associated with the Augustinian Priory, although parts of the walling to the west and north appear to be original ; the remains were formerly incorporated into a cottage. Random flint and stone, red brick dressings, pantiled roof. 2 bays, brick windows with pointed arches, Y tracery and hoodmoulds; corbelled brickwork to eaves, stepped brickwork to west gable, gable end stack. One room of the interior of the house has C16 beams and panelling from a house at Saffron Walden, Essex; 2 ornamental overmantels were also added in the restoration.
Listing NGR: TM4519675336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285534
- 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.
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