Portbury Priors

Portbury Priors is a farmhouse dating from the mid 17th century, possibly incorporating elements of a late medieval building, with alterations made in the 19th century. The structure is built of random rubble and features double Roman tiled and pantiled roofs, along with diagonal and square rubble stacks.

The east elevation has two storeys and consists of five bays, with the outer four bays forming two projecting wings that have pitched roofs. The windows are two- and three-light casements with moulded and chamfered mullions, some of which are from the 19th century, and are set under hood moulds and relieving arches on the left wing. The main body of the house is set back behind the wings and features three steep gables rising from the eaves. The central bay contains a three-light casement window on the first floor and a 20th-century door in a chamfered surround with a depressed arch head.

The rear (west) elevation has two storeys and attics, with three steep gables and three bays. The windows here are also two- and three-light casements with moulded and chamfered mullions and surrounds, with the central windows being three-light cross windows under relieving arches, all beneath drip moulds. There is a 19th-century door located off-centre to the left. A single-storey bakehouse projects to the right.

The south elevation features three gables and has an off-centre chamfered door surround under a segmental head, with a plank door that has strap hinges with open scroll ends.

Inside, the hall has a wide chamfered beam, now plastered, and a fireplace with an arched lintel. There is a moulded door frame leading to the stairway, which has elaborate but coarsely cut stops. The old kitchen features an ovolo moulded lintel above a fireplace with a segmental head and an iron chimney crane. The sitting room in the northeast corner has an ogee and hollow moulded ashlar fireplace with a depressed four-centred head. The central room on the first floor on the west side has an arch-braced collar beam roof.