Cookhill Priory

SP 05 NE INKBERROW CP EVESHAM ROAD (west side) Cookhill

6/89 Cookhill Priory

30.7.59

GV II*

Farmhouse incorporating remnants of Cistercian nunnery. Probably C15 with additions of 1763 and early C20. Timber-frame, mostly clad in brick; additions of brick with ahslar dressings. Front (west) range 1763 and early C20, rear range parallel to front, and slightly longer to south. West front: two storeys, brick parapet over modillioned stone cornice, stone band to ground floor, ashlar quoins; angled bay window to left, four windows to rest of front, all with moulded stone architraves and glazing-bar sashes; the three windows to the right are the early C20 addtion; ground floor: architraves have keystones, entrance immediately to right of bay has stone doorcase; Doric pilasters and segmental pediment. Interior reported to have a staircase with turned balusters and ramped hand- rail, C18 doorcases and a C18 chimneypiece. The extensive earthworks around the house are scheduled as an Ancient Monument. The nunnery was founded in C12. (VCH 3, pp 419-420; BoE p 123-4; P Reid, 1980, Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country Houses, Vol II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, London, pp 198-199).

Listing NGR: SP0536657274