Combwell Priory and walled garden

Combwell Priory and its walled garden is a house built around 1930, with later 20th-century additions, situated on a site that dates back to the 12th century and incorporates medieval materials. The building features dressed stone and a plain tiled roof, along with red brick, timber frame, and tile-hung extensions. The main range is two storeys high, with a plinth and string course, and includes a two-storey and attic cross-wing that projects to the right, topped with a shaped kneelered parapet gable. The main range has a hipped roof, with chimneys on the left and at the end right.

The attic has a three-light stone mullioned window, while the cross-wing has three-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor. The main range has two three-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, with a two-light window at the center of the first floor. The central entrance features a plank and stud door with sidelights, set within a depressed-arched moulded surround flanked by crudely voluted Ionic pilasters in a parapeted porch. To the right, there is a smaller shaped gabled range with a looped cross, which is fronted by a large mullioned bay window.

On the left return of the cross-wing, there is a pinnacled and crocketed ogee-headed niche containing a stumpy statuette of an armoured knight. The rear elevation, built on earlier foundations, features a worn medieval figure blowing a horn. Attached to the rear wing is a red and blue brick 18th-century wall, which connects to an 18th-century walled garden that measures about 50 yards by 100 yards and includes a red brick stable block built on a stone base.

Historically, Robert de Thurnham founded a Premonstratensian Abbey at this location during the reign of Henry II. By 1220, it became an Augustinian Priory. After the Reformation, it served as the mansion house for branches of the Culpepper and later Campion families. By 1657, little remained of either the abbey or the subsequent house.