The Priory Hospital (Including Ice House)

PRIORY LANE SW15 1. 5033 The Priory Hospital (including ice-house) TQ 27NW 1/1 18.2.75 II 2. Early 19th Century stucco Gothic with slate roofs behind battlements. Two-storeys. [North (former entrance) elevation to Dowdeswell Close.] Long, irregular font, central advanced, entrance bay with pointed-arch door of panel tracery recessed behind taller pointed arch in gabled porch. Niche above with figure of bishop. Octagonal towers left and right supporting triplets of Tudor-type stacks. Octagonal buttresses and pilaster strips cut by chamfered strings characterise the elevation, which is pierced by a variety of windows. [South (garden) elevation.] Three-bay pointed-arch entrance loggia with trellis-moulded interior pierced by central panel-tracery double door between mullion-and-transom windows. Flanking octagonal towers with panel-tracery windows under pointed-arch drip moulds. Tudor-type stacks. To right, long asymmetrical right-angled range articulated by pinnacled buttresses. Later extensions to left of loggia and towards Priory Lane. Some interiors of note, including a chapel with a fine ceiling. Ice-house in grounds. Extensions by Romiau and Cough circa 1840.

Listing NGR: TQ2152575185