Priory House

UP HOLLAND

SD5205 CHURCH STREET 783-1/7/30 (East side) 25/06/73 No.7 Priory House (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND CHURCH STREET No.7 The Abbey)

GV II

House. Probably mid C18 enlargement of earlier house; altered and restored. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof, brick chimneys. Rectangular double-depth double-fronted plan with side wings. 2 storeys and attics, 5 windows, almost symmetrical: with a wooden modillioned gutter cornice; a central square-headed doorway with fluted pilasters, triglyph frieze and cornice, and a 6-panel door with 3-pane overlight; four 12-pane sashed windows at ground floor and 5 above, all with raised sills and flat-arched heads, that in the centre of the 1st floor unhorned, those to the right with exposed boxes and likewise unhorned, and the upper of these with higher sills than the others at this level. Gable chimney to left, another chimney on front slope in line with 4th window. Low service wing to left, and remains of another to the right. Rear has various sashed windows, mostly 12-paned. INTERIOR: the lateral partition wall between the centre and the right-hand side is as thick as the external front and back walls, and floor levels to the right are slightly different, indicating that the right-hand side is an addition. Contains good doglegged staircase to attic level, mostly of mid C18 type with open string, scrolled brackets, 2 turned balusters per tread and a ramped moulded handrail, but the top flight in C17 form, with closed string, stout turned balusters and unramped moulded handrail; also, fielded panelled doors on both main floors.

Listing NGR: SD5231305067