Priory Farmhouse

MAXSTOKE CHURCH ROAD (South side) SP 2386 17/108 Priory Farmhouse 11/11/52

GV II*

Inner gatehouse to Priory of Augustinian Canons; converted to a house late C16. Early C14 with late C16 alterations. Squared and irregular coursed sandstone. Timber-framed with brick infill and red brick. Plain-tiled roof. Red brick ridge stack and late C16 projecting side stack on the rear, of coursed sandstone with red brick to upper courses. 2 storeys and attic. North front has 2 first floor late C16 or early C17 ovolo mullion cross-frame casements of sandstone. Another window to a gable above the doorway has a moulded stone architrave and 3-light wood cross-frame casement of C18/C19. At ground floor a doorway in early C19 rusticated stone surround. C20 plank door. 3-centred double chamfered carriageway arch, early C14, now blocked. Rear wall has opposing carriageway arch now blocked. Late C16 cross-frame casements in rear wall including one of 3 lights to first floor hall. The west gable end has mid/late C16 timber-framing of vertical studding to part of the wall and the east gable end has been rebuilt in red brick in Cl8/C19. Interior: Mid/late C16 roof in 5 bays. Through-purlins with wind bracing, cambered tie beams and raking Queen struts. Original chamfered arches of early C14 to some openings on the interior. Mid C17 staircase with symmetrically turned balusters with square newels and moulded rail. Run-through panelling reset in one room having C16 ceiling enriched with moulded main beams and painted with shields of arms. Originally at first floor and moved to ground floor. Originally the inner gatehouse with priors lodging above of the priory of Augustinian Canons founded by William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, in 1336 and consecrated in 1342. Scheduled ancient monument. (VCH: Warwickshire, Vol IV; Buildings of England; Warwickshire: p349)

Listing NGR: SP2345186834