Hodsock Priory

Hodsock Priory is a country house dating to 1829, with significant alterations by George Devey between 1873 and 1876. The house is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and some blue brick diaperwork, featuring tiled roofs. The south front has brick coped gables with kneeler finials, decorative brick and ashlar ridge and kneeler finials, and a brick coped parapet with Lombard frieze. Two stacks rise from the front, one with two Jacobean-style shafts, and a similar stack is present at the rear and to the left, with three shafts. The right gable has a single stack and shaft, replacing a finial. The building stands on a plinth, and the original south front has five bays, with the left bay slightly projecting and gabled. A Tudor arched doorway has a flush ashlar quoin surround, a part-glazed door, arched overlight, and is flanked by three sashes and a tripartite sash with two stone mullions, all with flush ashlar quoin surrounds and relieving brick arches. The left window has brick nogging infill. Above the left bay is a smaller, similar tripartite sash. Four sashes are located to the right. A plaque is set in the left gable apex. Rainwater heads dated 1829 are on the south and west sides. The north front features brick coped parapets, gables, and finials, with four stacks to the rear, two with three Jacobean-style shafts, one with seven, and one with a single shaft. Two ridge stacks are present, one with three shafts and one with a single shaft. A single stack is on the right gable. The north front includes a closed, single-storey porch with an ashlar coped, shaped parapet, an arched doorway with flush ashlar quoin surround, a double panelled door, ashlar hood mould, carved spandrel, and an ashlar rest with a hood mould band. The side walls have fixed lights, and the protruding bays have five-light cross casements with relieving arches. Dormers are present in the attic space. Interior features from the original period survive.