Tower House and Attached Wall and Gate Piers (Remains of Priory) is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. House. 4 related planning applications.
Tower House and Attached Wall and Gate Piers (Remains of Priory)
- WRENN ID
- iron-column-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower House and Attached Wall and Gate Piers (Remains of Priory), Old Priory, City of Plymouth, PL7 1QS
- OS grid reference
- SX 537 561
- Coordinates
- 50.38724, -4.05858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House is a house that incorporates the remains of a former priory, dating back to the 12th century. It features a doorway and part of the ground-floor walls from this period, while the rest of the structure is from the mid to late 19th century. The building is constructed from killas rubble with granite and freestone dressings, topped with a dry slate roof that has a front attic gable and a brick stack on the left. The roof is adorned with crested clay ridge tiles and has a shaped barge board and fascia board. The house has a small rectangular plan, with a lean-to extension at the rear on the right and a conservatory in the angle.
The exterior consists of three storeys plus an attic, with a one-window range. The attic gable features a lancet window, likely from the 13th century and re-used. There is a two-storey oriel window with slate-hung aprons on the upper floors, which contains early or mid-20th century three-light leaded casements and sidelights. The ground floor has a 12th-century moulded doorway, which has been fitted with a window. The right-hand return wall includes several small medieval windows.
In front of the house on the left, there is a high rubble garden wall that features a pair of square brick gate-piers on its right. These gate-piers have plinths, rendered shaped panels with central vermiculation, moulded cornices, and stepped caps with moulded finials.
Local climate
Tower House and Attached Wall and Gate Piers (Remains of Priory) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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