Leez Priory Inner Gate House (That Part In Dunmow Rd)

TL 71 NW 8/183

FELSTED LEEZ LANE Leez Priory (that part in Dunmow Rd)

G.V. I

Inner Gate House, C16. Red brick built with black end patterning. Stone dressings to windows, parapets and crenellations and a stone Coat of Arms above Coutyard archway. Crenellated, octagonal turrets to each corner, of 3 storeys, the South/East with origional solid tread staircase. The East face turrets are diapered and panelled in 3 stages, each with a band of trefoil moulded bricks. The block between the turrets, above the archway, is of two storeys, each comprising a large room, with stone mullion and transomed windows to East and West faces. The block has gabled parapets of brick and stone panels with a stone final. There is a moulded stone archway to West face and a moulded brick archway to East face. The stone arch with fleur-de-lys and rose decoration spandrels, the brick with shields. There are 4 fine decorated, moulded red brick octagonal chimney stacks, 3 recessed arches and other remains of former buildings on this site, after 1536, when the priory of the Augustinian Canons was dissolved and mainly demolished. Restorations were carried out early C20 by Chancellor. The boundary of Felsted in Uttlesford and Great and Little Leighs in Chemlsford runs through the site. The stone hexagonal conduit, in the Gothic style, is listed Grade II, TL 71 NW 2/149 in Great and Little Leighs, as are the 2 barns situated to the south of Leez Priory, built of C16 red brick with red plain tile roofs and some original windows, the east barn of 5 bays and the west barn of 6 bays, TL 71 NW 2/152. The major part of the Inner Gate House lies Felsted. RCHM 2.

Listing NGR: TL7012118567