The Priory

OWSTON SK 70 NE MAIN STREET (West Side)

2/79 The Priory

19.10.51

GV II

House, formerly Vicarage. Mid Cl7 with mid Victorian additions now forming entrance front. Finely coursed ironstone rubble with white ashlar dressings, and stone tiled roof. Two storeyed with attic. Victorian entrance front with service wing recessed to left, and projecting full height porch with replaced or recut C15 doorway with hollow chamfered four-centred arch. Single window above beneath coped gable. Porch has gathered and stepped buttresses. To its right a broader gable with tall 4-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed window lighting stairs, and 3-light stone mullioned window to right, 2-lights above. West side has expressed chimney in Victorian range, and gable end of original house, with a Victorian mullioned window, one on each floor. Apex of gable is filled with white ashlar. South front represents the original Cl7 building; symmetrical about a central doorway, C15 with hollow chamfered four-centred archway. Flanking it are Victorian canted bay windows with stone mullions and transoms and parapets. To either side of the bays the plinth is dropped to take the former window openings, the quoins of which may still partially be seen. 3 and 2-light ovolo moulded mullions to first floor, which is partially of white ashlar. These windows appear to be Victorian renewals. Centrally placed, a small coped gabled dormer with roof that springs high above the eaves level and containing a 2-light window and sundial in the apex. Sundial carries a date, almost illegible but may be 1649. Central stack with 4 stone shafts. Coped gables.

Listing NGR: SK7749607960