The Priory

The Priory is a two-storey house built in the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries, with 20th-century alterations. It is timber-framed, largely encased in rendered brick, and partially weather-boarded at the rear. It has gable roofs covered with concrete tiles and four rendered stacks. The building has a complex layout, incorporating the remains of a 16th-century hall, a service wing, and chambers above. There is also a 17th-century cross wing to the east, and a projecting, two-bay wing added in the late 19th century, featuring a recessed porch with a panelled entrance door to the west. Windows are mostly 19th and 20th-century casements, some with leaded lights and drip mould heads.

The late 19th-century wing contains unremarkable interiors. The 16th-century hall retains a significant amount of its original pegged timber frame, including two blocked doorways leading to the service end, close studwork, jowled storey posts, chamfered bridging beams with lambs tongue stops, and square section joists. The roof structure is oak, with principal rafters dividing the bays, clasped side purlins, and wind braces. The 17th-century cross wing to the east displays exposed chamfered bridging beams with lambs tongue stops, tie beams, a wall plate, and wall posts, along with a clasped side-purlin roof truss.

The Priory is a substantially intact 16th-century timber-framed hall with a 17th-century cross wing, extended and altered in the late 19th century. The exposed framing includes jowled storey posts, chamfered bridging beams, two framed service doorways, and complete roof trusses. The late 19th-century wing is of little significance. As a vernacular structure dating before 1750 and largely retaining its original fabric, it meets the criteria for a building of its age and type for group value.