Priory House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House. 3 related planning applications.
Priory House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-pinnacle-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Priory House, Church Lane, Shaftesbury, SP7 8JT
- OS grid reference
- ST 861 229
- Coordinates
- 51.0056, -2.19817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory House is a building dating from 1615, located on Church Lane. The house faces north and features an early 19th-century front, while the structure to the south may be older. The north front has two storeys and three window bays, topped with a tiled gabled roof and flanked by stacks. There is a small moulded eaves cornice and the front is made of ashlar. The windows are three panes wide and set in reveals. On the right side, there is a four flush panelled door in reveals, topped with a small rectangular fanlight. A 19th-century gas lamp is attached to the house to the left of the doorway. To the east, adjoining No 8, is a single-storey range set slightly back. This range has a tiled roof, one three-light sash window at the right end, and two pairs of double wooden boarded doors at the left end. In between these doors is a four flush panelled door with the top panels cut away and glazed. Priory House, along with Nos 2 to 8 (even), the dwarf wall, railings, and gate piers, forms a group.
Local climate
Priory House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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- Dwarf Wall, Railings and Gate Piers to Priory House
- 6 and 8, Church Lane
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- Boundary Wall Flanking Park Walk on North Side in Curtilage of the Following Porperties Nos 17 and 19 High Street, Nos 6 and 8 Church Lane, Priory House, Church Lane, and the Remains of Shaftesbury Abbey Wall Within Curtilage of Nos 17 and 19 High Street and Facing on to Park Walk Wall Within Curtilage of Nos 6 and 8 and Facing on to Park Walk Wall Within Curtilage of Priory House and Facing on to Park Walk