Priors Court is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Priors Court
- WRENN ID
- low-corner-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Priors Court, Aylton, HR8 2QE
- OS grid reference
- SO 665 380
- Coordinates
- 52.0398, -2.48959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prior's Court is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century and late 19th century, with earlier origins, and was restored in the 1980s. It features a combination of brick and timber framing with tiled roofs, and has two side stacks—one at the rear of the main range and another to the left of the cross-wing. The building is arranged in an L-plan, with a single-storey range that may have medieval origins, aligned north-west to south-east. Attached at the north-west end is a two-storey cross-wing over a cellar from the 17th century, while a late 19th-century altered wing is attached at the rear of the south-east end.
On the south-west elevation, there is a configuration of one plus three windows with late 20th-century casements. The gable front of the 17th-century cross-wing to the left features a brick plinth on the ground floor and above it, three panels of timber framing up to the tie-beam, which contains a pair of casements on both the ground and first floors, along with a single casement in the gable attic beneath V-struts. A brick stack is located on the left side. The main range to the right has three regularly spaced late 19th-century dormers and four casements on the ground floor, with exposed timber framing on the right and brick on the left. There is also a late 20th-century brick entrance porch at the junction of the two wings. A large rear stone stack serves an open fireplace with a segmental stone arch, which is reputedly late medieval.
Local climate
Priors Court receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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