The Priory

STONE

SJ9033 LICHFIELD STREET, Stone 651-1/7/39 (North side) 09/03/49 No.8 The Priory

GV II*

House. Early to mid C18 with early C19 alterations and additions incorporating C13 or C14 undercroft. Stuccoed brick with timber-framed internal walls; hipped roof. L-plan: C19 addition to front right. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Central round-headed entrance has steps with parapets ending in panelled piers, Doric colums to porch and paired panelled doors. Windows have 4-pane horned sashes; canted bay window and tripartite window to ground floor; smaller windows to 2nd floor. Return lateral stacks; left return has brick stair to 1st floor; segmental-headed windows to rear. INTERIOR has some exposed coursed squared stone to outer walls and square-framed internal walls with C18 brick infill; C19 open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters, and remains of earlier stair, moulded handrails and square newels, to 1st floor; former right return has exposed C18 flemish bond brick and ashlar wedge lintels with keys to former windows. Cellar has 2 bays and 2 half-bays of medieval rib-vaulted undercroft: single-chamfered ribs on corbels, octagonal pier now set in later masonry and signs of blocked openings; cellar to rear has chamfered beams and joists and large fireplace with cambered lintel; cellar beneath C19 addition reveals stone plinth and base of wall. House built on the site of the Augustinian Priory of SS Mary and Wulfad, founded c1125. (Victoria History of Staffordshire: 1970-: 240FF).

Listing NGR: SJ9040133778