Priory Farmhouse

Priory Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the early 14th century, built as part of Studley Priory. It underwent significant alterations or rebuilding in the early to mid-16th century, particularly for Sir Edmund Knightly, and features a stack dated 1539. The building was largely refaced and altered in the mid-19th century. It is primarily constructed of red brick, with some coursed lias and a small amount of exposed timber framing. The roof is covered with old tiles, and there are both brick external and ridge stacks.

The farmhouse has an L-plan layout with a rear wing and stands two storeys high, featuring a three-window range. The rendered porch includes a moulded gable parapet with kneelers, and the four-centred doorway has a hood mould and a four-panelled door with an overlight. The sides of the building have lancet windows with hood moulds and head stops, along with a blocked doorway to the left. The ground floor windows are brick segmental arches, and there are irregular lias quoins on the right side. Above the porch, there is a medieval carved head in the wall, and a moulded wall plate, possibly from the 16th century, is found on the right. The left return side features the remains of a large early 14th-century stone window with fragments of tracery, partially obscured by a massive lias and brick stack that also has a medieval carved head. Three 17th-century square shafts made of thin bricks with V-pilasters are present.

On the ground floor, there are two 14th-century stone panels with paired blind quatrefoils. The mid-19th-century windows are straight-headed casements with Gothic glazing and rendered hood moulds. The right return side has some exposed framing and imitation ashlar render, along with a 19th-century single-storey castellated brick addition. The gables feature mid-19th-century fretted bargeboards, and the rear wing shows some exposed framing at the gable. A mid-19th-century external stack has two moulded square shafts.

While an interior inspection was not possible, the Victoria County History notes several interior features, including chamfered cross beams and a canted boss on the ground floor, which may have been re-set. The upper floor and partitions were inserted in the 16th century, and some early Tudor framing and a square-panelled ceiling were added below the roof.