The Priory

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE VICARAGE STREET 684-1/7/258 (North side) 19/01/51 The Priory

GV II

Formerly known as: The Vicarage VICARAGE STREET. House, now used as dental surgery and offices. Probably C16 or C17 but substantially refurbished in the 1840s. Smooth-plastered; slate roof, gabled at ends; end stacks to front range, the left-hand stack preserving C19 diagonally-set shafts with corbelled cornices and old pots. 3 rear lateral stacks with old pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. Single-depth front range is probably the original rear block on the same axis. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:1:2-window range (the one window to the porch) with a 2-storied porch with an embattled parapet with coped merlons and embrasures above a moulded string. Windows glazed with diamond-leaded panes. Elaborate Perpendicular style moulded stone outer doorway with a Tudor arch, ballflower carving and square-headed hoodmould, carved spandrels with crossed key motifs. Porch has carved inner door (C19 or C20) with moulded frame. 2-light square-headed stone window over porch with hoodmould, moulded mullion and cusped lights. Other windows are 4-light timber-mullioned casements except ground-floor right which is a C19 canted bay with slender buttresses with set-offs. Window has moulded stone mullions and transoms, the upper lights cusped; some stained glass. INTERIOR: partially inspected. Retains some c1840s moulded doorways.

Listing NGR: SS5590733439