Priory Cottage

Priory Cottage is a house dating from approximately 1560-80 on the right side of the doorway, with an addition from around 1790-1800 to the left. Originally, the right side was timber-framed. The walls are roughcast with an old tile roof and brick stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and two storeys, with a four-window front. A late 19th-century six-panelled door (with four panes of glass) is set within an eared, moulded architrave topped by carved brackets. Late 18th-century sash windows are on the left side, and late 19th-century three-light casements on the right. The roof is gabled, with stacks on the left gable end and ridge.

A two-storey, one-bay section from around 1560-80 is located to the rear right, with roughcast over the original timber frame and an old tile gabled roof. It contains late 18th-century sash windows and a six-panelled door to the rear. A parallel two-storey, two-window range, built around 1790-1800, runs along the rear left side. This section is constructed of Flemish bond brick with limestone ashlar quoins, a gabled old tile roof, and a gable end stack. It features late 18th-century sash windows and a tripartite sash window with Doric columns supporting a flat cornice over French windows.

Inside, there are late 18th-century two- and four-panelled doors. Reset late 16th-century panelling forms the dado of a room at the rear left. On the first floor, there’s a mid-to-late 16th-century doorway, cavetto-moulded with sunk spandrels, to the rear of the ridge stack, along with mid-to-late 16th-century panelling adjacent to the winder stairs to the rear of that stack. A mid-to-late 16th-century panelled room is located to the right, featuring an original door to a closet in front of the stack. Exposed timber framing with large arch-braces is present. The original roof structure is not visible. Group value is evidenced by its contribution to the streetscape.