Priory Farmhouse

TF 8817 LITCHAM CHURCH STREET (west side)

7/21 Priory Farmhouse 4.12.51 I - Former chapel and hermitage converted into farmhouse, now dwelling. Early C14 with important C17 additions. Flint with stone and clunch dressings to Medieval part. Timber frame mainly replaced with brick and a flint and brick gable-end to early C17 side extension. Brick later C17 service and stair rear extensions. Later brick lean-tos. Black pantiled roofs. 2 storeys with attics. Flint gable wall with former large arched east window. Angle buttresses with niches with trefoil heads. C17 gable with pair of blocked windows, tumbling-in, moulded brick gable corbels and inserted stack. South facade with 6 C19 3-light casement windows. Arched central window with Y-tracery. C14 front door with busily moulded arch of filletted rolls and undercut hollow rolls on to plain-chamfered jambs. 2 C18 dormers with moulded pediments and metal casements with leaded glazing. C17 west gable-end with 2 blocked fragmentary ovolo-moulded 2-light mullion windows. 2 later C17 extensions with curvilinear gables and windows (mainly blocked) with moulded brick eared architraves. Semicircular headed doorway with projecting imposts and key. INTERIOR. 2 crown post trusses over former chapel, one octa- gonal with moulded capital and base and 4-way bracing. Corresponding tie cambered and hollow-chamfered with former notched arch braces and wall posts. Roll-moulded wall plate. 4 queen post trusses (2 survive) to early C17 extension. One C16 bridging joist with broad chamfers and broach stops. C17 beams with barred and ogee stops. Part of jettied timber frame survives on north side. Very fine staircase with tapered balusters and newel knops. Stone dressed western fireplaces. Surviving inventory of Mathew Halcott 1674.

Listing NGR: TF8881617444