The Pynion End

The Pynion End is a gable-end of a monastic building located at the southeast corner of the former cloister, dating from the late 14th century. The gable was restored in 1846 and features an ashlar outer face on the east side, while the inner face is made of squared and coursed rubble stone. It has diagonal buttresses and a central gable buttress with set-offs and a plinth moulding. The stump of the south side wall remains, including a door-jamb that leads to an undercroft. The internal floor level is half a metre above the current ground level. There is a ground-floor fireplace with ovolo-moulded jambs and a square head, and a smaller fireplace on the first floor to the right of centre, which has moulded stone jambs and a segmental rubble-stone head. A 12th-century stone is set into the back of the ground floor fireplace. The site is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.