The Priory, In Priory Wood, 500 Yards To North East Of Midford Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. Summer house.
The Priory, In Priory Wood, 500 Yards To North East Of Midford Castle
- WRENN ID
- final-cobalt-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- Summer house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST 76 SE SOUTH STOKE MIDFORD ROAD (north side)
7/189 The Priory, in Priory Wood, 500 yards to north-east of Midford 1.2.56 Castle
- II
Gothick style summer house or tea-room. Circa 1775 possibly to the design of John Carter. In a ruined state at time of survey - December 1983. Coursed squared freestone footings survive for 2-3 feet around the main building which has a canted south end. At the north west is a ruinous, circular tower: ashlar; 3 stages with a bold bracketted cornice and a truncated spire; pierced quatrefoil windows on the west side, the top one is under a hoodmould as on Midford Castle.(q.v.). The Priory ruins are all that remains of an important Georgian Gothick garden which formerly also contained a hermitage, a bridge over a man-made ravine and numerous walks and rides. (Country Life, 3.III.1944., 10.III.1944.).
Listing NGR: ST7618761560
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