The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Priory
- WRENN ID
- distant-entrance-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priory, Donnington Priory, Oxford Road, Donnington, Newbury, Shaw Cum Donnington, RG14 2JE
- OS grid reference
- SU 466 686
- Coordinates
- 51.41464, -1.33095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory is a house, now used as offices, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, with possible remnants of medieval work. It is constructed of brick, knapped flint with brick and Bath stone dressings, and random flint and stone. The roof is slate, with a wooden dentil eaves cornice and two end stacks. The house is three storeys high and five bays wide, featuring glazing bar sash windows. Ground floor windows have projecting keystones, while the second floor windows are framed by stone architraves, the central one of which is painted. The building includes a stone plinth, plat bands between the floors, and oval brick panels between the first-floor windows. A central, mid-19th century Gothic porch projects from the front, with diagonal buttresses and a carved coat of arms in the parapet. A two-storey, two-bay extension dating to circa 1800 adjoins the left side of the building.
The interior features an early 19th-century staircase in an oval hall, with square balusters. There are several mid-18th century fireplaces throughout the house. The house occupies the site of a priory founded in 1393. The author John Hughes, known for Tom Brown's Schooldays, resided here from 1833 to 1851.
Local climate
The Priory receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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