Old Prior Manor And Prior Manor Cottage

CORBRIDGE STAGSHAW ROAD NY 9864 (East side)

21/199 Old Prior Manor and Prior Manor Cottage 20.10.52 (previously listed as Old Rectory and cottage occupied by W Johnson)

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Pair of houses, mid-C17 but with earlier fabric in cottage; C18 and C19 alterations. Coursed rubble with roughly-shaped quoins, except for massive squared quoins to cottage ground floor; cut dressings; cottage porch old brick with squared stone front; Welsh slate roofs with old brick stacks. House double-span with late C18/early C19 part to rear, cottage with rear outshut of uncertain date.

South elevation in 2 sections, each 2 storeys, 3 bays. House to left has C20 glazed door in old moulded surround with flat-pointed head, sunk spandrels and hoodmould; 12-pane sash windows with tooled lintels and sills: traces of older openings alongside. Cottage to right has central porch with boarded door in chamfered surround, under coped gable: paired 4-pane casements in former 2-light windows (only that over porch retains its mullion) with recessed and chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. House has coped gables; stepped-and-banded stacks at ends and between house and cottage.

Left return of house shows chamfered attic window. Right return of cottage shows 6-pane casements (thelower, to stair, with old bars), blocked 2-light attic window and 4-pane sash set in chamfered opening of former doorwayinto rear outshut.

Interior: House retains 4 original fireplaces (one large) with moulded surrounds, flat pointed arches and sunk spandrels. Cottage has boarded front door, within porch, with flat-pointed head in chamfered square frame; simple C18 stone fire- places; kitchen ceiling (in rear outshut) has stop-chamfered joists.

Also known as Prior Mains. Formerly Corbridge Rectory, held in the medieval period by Carlisle Priory.

Listing NGR: NY9882064832