Denham Priory

Denham Priory is a house that originated as a hall and parlour in the mid-16th century and was extended around 1980. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a lobby entrance plan. It is timber-framed and rendered, with close-studding exposed at the upper level. The upper floor jetties out and has a fascia-bressummer that is carved with leaf ornamentation. The roof is thatched and includes dormers, along with a 16th-century chimney and 20th-century diagonally-set square flues that were rebuilt to match the late 16th-century style.

The left section of the building is 1½ storeys high and was completely rebuilt around 1980 on the site of a timber-framed range. It features 20th-century casements and a small 4-light 16th-century roll-moulded mullioned window on the first floor. The lobby entrance doorway has roll-moulded jambs and a chamfered 4-centred head with leaf-carved spandrels, leading to an oak plank door. Inside, the hall and parlour display good framing with chamfered main members and joists. The parlour doorway is roll-moulded with an arched head and leaf-carved spandrels. There are open fireplaces with cambered timber lintels, and two chambers above have similar fireplaces. Later attics were inserted, and there is evidence of a pre-16th-century building that was originally attached to the west end, now replaced by a 20th-century structure.