Hodsock Priory

SK 68 NW HODSOCK HODSOCK PRIORY LANE (West side)

3/78 Hodsock Priory

G.V. II

Country house. 1829. North front by George Devey 1873-6, who also carried out some remodelling. Red brick with ashlar dressings and some blue brick diaper. Tiled roofs. South front with brick coped gables and kneelers with single, slightly projecting, decorative brick and ashlar ridge and kneeler finials. Brick coped parapet with Lombard frieze under. Single red brick stack to the front, with 2 Jacobean style shafts. To the rear is a similar stack. To the left is a single projecting stack with 3 similar shafts. The right gable has a single stack and shaft, instead of finial. Set on a plinth. 2 storeys, 5 bays. The left bay slightly projects and is gabled. Tudor style arched doorway, with flush ashlar quoin surround. Part glazed door with 2 pane, arched, overlight. To the right are 3 sashes and to the left a single tripartite sash with 2 stone mullions. All have flush ashlar quoin surrounds and a relieving brick arch, the left window has brick nogging infill between arch and lintel. Above left is a single, similar, smaller, tripartite sash, surround and arch. To the right are 4 sashes with flush ashlar quoin surrounds. In the left gable apex is an ashlar plaque. Rainwater heads dated 1829 on south and west sides. North front with brick coped parapets and gables with finials and kneelers. 4 stacks to the rear, 2 with 3 Jacobean style shafts, one with 7 similar shafts and one with single, similar shaft. There are 2 ridge stacks, one with 3 similar shafts and one with single, similar shaft. The right gable has a single stack, Set on a plinth. 2 storeys plus attic, 6 bays. Closed, single storey, porch, with ashlar coped, shaped parapet. Arched doorway with flush ashlar quoin surround, double wooden panelled door ashlar hood mould, carved spandrel, and above, an ashlar rest with hood mould band over. The side walls both have single fixed lights with flush ashlar quoin surrounds. Either side are single 2 light cross casements with relieving arches and 2 storey plus attic protruding bays with single 5-light, similar cross casement with relieving arch. Above the porch is a similar 3-light casement and arch, with a similar 2-light casement and arch to its left. In the protruding bays are single, similar 4 light, casements with moulded lintel bands. Further left is a similar 2-light casement and arch. Above are 4 half dormers, each with single 2-light casement with mullion and relieving arch. All windows have flush ashlar quoin surrounds. There is a single roof dormer with single 5-light window. Interior. Various internal contemporary features survive.

Listing NGR: SK6114285427