Alnesbourne Priory Country Club

TM 14 SE 2/19

NACTON Alnesbourne Priory Country Club

(Formerly listed as Barn to Priory Farmhouse)

16.3.66

II Clubhouse, formerly barn. The building incorporates a little medieval walling of the church of the Priory of Alnesbourne (founded c,1200). The barn was built in early C17 and converted to a clubhouse in c.1970. Mainly C17 red brick walling, but the 4th bay is timber-framed and weather-boarded. Against the south wall is a series of square buttresses of red brick; against the west gable is another, similar. The raking buttresses on the north side were added in C19. Areas of medieval random limestone and septaria rubble walling on north and west sides, including some dressed ashlar stones reused as rubble; on the north wall is a section of freestone buttressing. Plaintiled roof with 2 tiers of butt-purlins, the upper tier wind-braced. Apart from 3 rows of ventilation slots in west gable, all openings are C20. Alterations of c.1970 include a pantiled lean-to extension to the south and a pantiled and gabled porch to the north. The parish church of Hallowtree was alienated to Alnesbourne Priory in 1301, but the Priory was "ruinous" by 1514. It is the ruins of the church which are apparently incorporated in the present building; for this reason it is included despite C20 alterations.

Listing NGR: TM1918440412