The Priory

WANTAGE PRIORY ROAD SU3987NE (East side) 9/155 No. 1 (The Priory) 22/04/50 (Formerly listed as The Priory under Church Street)

GV II

House. Late C16, remodelled and extended to rear in early C18. Roughcast over original timber framing; old tile roof; brick stacks. Original L-plan of hall and cross wing adjoining earlier. No.22, Priory Cottage, Church Street, (q.v.). 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Doric pedimented porch, c.1790, to C20 door. Late C18 tripartite sashes flank sash above porch. Early C18 roof dormers have late C19 two-light casements. Gabled roof; gable end left stack obscured by small 2-storey projection with sashes to left side wall. Mid/late C19 two- and 3-light casements to rear. Late C16 two-storey and attic, 2-window range to rear left, with early C18 bay added to rear: built of early C18 brick with hipped old tile roof, brick lateral stack; has mid/late C18 sashes to left side and rear and early C18 gabled roof dormer with 2-light leaded casement. Interior: Cellars have chamfered and stopped middle beam, early C18 turned balusters to one-light between front and middle cellar and late C16 three-light chamfered stone-mullioned window to front. C18 six-panelled doors throughout. Ribbed door to rear cellar steps with early C18 cupboard above. Chamfered and stopped beams throughout; early C18 cupboard in front left room, early C18 cornice and C19 panelled dado in room behind. 2 keyed segmental-arched entries with moulded imposts to rear of hall which has early C18 quarter-turn stairs with turned balusters on closed string. Exposed timber-framing and timber-framed external wall of No.22 (Priory Cottage) (q.v.) to first-floor right. Late C16 roof over hall partly removed for early C18 wider pitched roof; late Cib queen-post truss with clasped purlins survives in left cross wall. Early C18 common-rafter roof with butt purlins to rear left. Dr. Joseph Butler (1692-1752), Bishop of Durham, was born here.

Listing NGR: SU3966287874