The Priory Of Lady St Mary Including Walls Immediately To West

The Priory of Lady St Mary, including walls immediately to the west, largely dates from the early 16th century, with additions from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The main structure is built of hammer-dressed Purbeck stone, with a western range of red brick and a prominent red brick stack to the east. The eastern section has a hipped tile roof, half-hipped to the west, while the western section has a pitched tile roof. Stone slates are set above the eaves. The building is two storeys and attics in height.

The south front features two stone mullioned casements on the ground floor of the eastern part, with hollow chamfered details. Most other windows are modern casements, with skylights and one attic dormer with a hipped tile roof. The north front has a brick modillion eaves cornice. Three modern casements are visible on the first floor. A lean-to extension on the ground floor obscures a 17th-century door with a moulded four-centred arch that was originally external.

Internally, the original layout consisted of a single-storey hall with a parlour and a first-floor chamber at the east end. Surviving from this earlier arrangement are the moulded intersecting ceiling beams in the drawing room, and a 17th-century stone chimney piece with a moulded four-centred head and embattled mantel shelf. In the late 17th or early 18th century, the hall was ceiled and divided into two storeys, creating three rooms on the ground floor. Remaining features from this period include a diagonal chimney breast in the northwest corner of the dining room and a staircase in the northeast corner of the former hall.

An extension dating to the 17th century is located to the east, built of red brick and Purbeck rubble with a hipped tile roof and stone slates above the eaves. It has one 18th-century sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor, one casement with glazing bars on the first floor, and further casements with glazing bars, along with three attic dormers with hipped tile roofs, casements, and glazed cheeks. A passageway on the ground floor is entered at the west end via a 17th-century four-centred arch with moulded jambs and voussoirs.

The 18th-century extension to the west, on the north side, is constructed of Purbeck rubble stone with a pitched tile roof and features a range of casements; the upper windows likely retain reconstituted 17th-century hoodmoulds. A courtyard on the north side is paved with stone setts. A range of 17th-century outhouses runs along the north side of the courtyard, connecting to the 17th-century east block. The exterior of these outhouses is Purbeck rubble stone with a half-hipped tile roof and a 17th-century four-centred arched door with moulded jambs and voussoirs at the west end. The west part of this range is red brick with a hipped tile roof and stone slates above the eaves, containing a ledged door. The courtyard is closed at the west end by a Purbeck rubble stone wall with a pointed arched gateway, linking the outhouse range with a 19th-century block to the northwest of the main range. Various rubble walls to the west of the main range may represent the remains of the mediaeval Priory of Lady St Mary.

The listed buildings on Church Green form a group.