St John's Priory, Including the Ruins of the Priory is a Grade II* listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. A Medieval Priory. 3 related planning applications.
St John's Priory, Including the Ruins of the Priory
- WRENN ID
- old-pediment-jay
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- Priory
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- St John's Priory, Including the Ruins of the Priory, High Street, New Romney, TN28 8BZ
- OS grid reference
- TR 064 248
- Coordinates
- 50.98584, 0.93998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Priory, including the ruins of the Priory, is a large L-shaped house with an early 18th-century front, possibly older behind the facade. The building has two storeys, attics, and a basement, constructed of red brick on a base of stone rubble with flint galleting. It features a tiled roof with two hipped dormers on the Ashford Road elevation and a parapet. There are seven sash windows facing High Street, three sash windows and two blank window spaces facing Ashford Road, with glazing bars intact except in three ground floor windows on the High Street front, which also have brick architraves above. The entrance is accessed by five steps and features a doorcase with a moulded architrave surround, a rectangular fanlight, a large flat hood on carved brackets, and a door with eight fielded panels. There are also two inserted bow windows. The side facing Ashford Road has a recessed doorcase with a rectangular fanlight above.
Inside, the building retains some panelling and a notable staircase with two turned balusters on each tread and scrolled tread ends. At the rear of the house are the ruins of a medieval Priory founded in the 13th century. The main part consists of a small two-storey building made of stone rubble with a tiled roof, featuring three windows—one small rectangular window and two windows with two lights each, which have corbel heads in the spandrel between the lights and a dripstone above. There is a pointed doorway that is now bricked up, with a similar corbel head above it, and another unblocked pointed doorway to the north without a corbel head. The interior has exposed beams. Behind this complete building to the north is a reconstructed wall made of medieval stones, which contains one small pointed window, two small rectangular windows, one blocked window with two quatrefoil-headed lights and a corbel bracket above, and a large depressed (almost square-headed) archway in the center (now bricked up) with the remains of a window above it and a corbel bracket.
St John's Priory, along with Nos 38, 40, 46, and 48, forms a group.
Local climate
St John's Priory, Including the Ruins of the Priory receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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