The Priory

The Priory is a house that was formerly a vicarage, dating from the mid-17th century, with mid-Victorian additions that now form the entrance front. The building is constructed from finely coursed ironstone rubble with white ashlar dressings and has a stone tiled roof. It is two storeys high with an attic.

The Victorian entrance front features a service wing that is recessed to the left and a projecting full-height porch. The porch has a replaced or recut 15th-century doorway with a hollow chamfered four-centred arch, and there is a single window above it beneath a coped gable. The porch is supported by gathered and stepped buttresses. To the right of the porch is a broader gable with a tall 4-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed window that lights the stairs, and a 3-light stone mullioned window to the right, with a 2-light window above.

On the west side, there is an expressed chimney in the Victorian range and the gable end of the original house, which features a Victorian mullioned window on each floor. The apex of the gable is filled with white ashlar.

The south front represents the original 17th-century building and is symmetrical around a central doorway from the 15th century, which has a hollow chamfered four-centred archway. Flanking the doorway are Victorian canted bay windows with stone mullions and transoms, along with parapets. The plinth on either side of the bays is dropped to accommodate former window openings, the quoins of which may still be partially visible. The first floor has 3 and 2-light ovolo moulded mullions, which are partially made of white ashlar and appear to be Victorian renewals. Centrally, there is a small coped gabled dormer with a roof that rises high above the eaves level, containing a 2-light window and a sundial in the apex, which carries a date that is almost illegible but may be 1649. The building has a central stack with four stone shafts and coped gables.