Priory Farm House

RICKINGHALL INFERIOR WEST HALL ROAD (SOUTH TM 07 SW WEST SIDE) 3/132 Priory Farm House - -- II Farmhouse. 1579 for GB and TMY, date and initials on storey posts; extended C17, altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof. 5 bay 3 cell cross entry plan with kitchen and dairy bays added in series on service end to right. 1 storey and attic. Entrance in original cross entry position is now roughly central, a recessed C19 4 panelled door with a cornice, 3-light glazing bar casements with hoodboards, 2 C20 2-light casements to parlour to left, three 2-light gabled dormers. Rendered axial ridge stack to left of centre between hall and parlour. Left end 3-light attic casement. Right end 2 and 3-light casements, pentice boards. To rear a C20 addition behind parlour, C20 3-light casements; a boarded door with a slate hood into added kitchen bay, a rendered external kitchen stack with a tiled gable headed brick oven and a slate roofed lean-to brick oven on original service bay. Interior: large 2 bay parlour, storey posts have 'TMY 1579' with crescent moon, star and sheep shears to front, 'GB 1579' with an inverted hert to rear on jowled sections with roll moulds below, stop chamfered cross axial binding beams and joists; hall stop chamfered axial binding beam, 2 service doorways, arched windbraces in single side purlin roof. C17 bays have through tension bracing.

Listing NGR: TM0361971656