The Old Priory

The Old Priory is probably a late 16th-century house, likely originally a farmhouse. The construction combines painted brick in the centre with uncoursed limestone rubble to the right and rendered timber framing on the left. The roof is covered with old plain tiles, with a brick end stack to the left and a brick ridge stack featuring three diagonally set flues to the right of the centre. The building is a double-ended hall house. It has two storeys and an attic, with a six-window front. The central section has two windows, flanked by cross-wings. A 20th-century open timber-framed porch with a plank door is located to the right of the centre. The windows are mostly 2-light wood casements, arranged irregularly. Cross-gables define the left and right sides. Timber framing is visible to the rear and in the cross-wings. A 17th-century winder staircase rises from the ground floor to the attic in the rear of the left cross-wing and an early 20th-century staircase is in the right cross-wing. The interior includes an open fireplace on both the ground floor and first floor of the centre section, with extensive timber framing throughout. The roof structure is a double queen post roof with windbracing.