Priory Gate House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. A Tudor Merchant's house.

Priory Gate House

WRENN ID
waiting-merlon-solstice
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1952
Type
Merchant's house
Period
Tudor
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 5180 FORE STREET (North Side) ------------ No 65 (Priory Gate House) SX 8060 SW 2/41A 7.1.52.

II* GV

  1. Later C16 merchants house refaced earlier C19. On site of Priory gatehouse (plaque). Incorporates masonry party walls of former C16 building with moulded corbel of former 1st floor jetty. 3 storeys, 2 windows. Hipped Welsh slate roof with coved eaves cornice. Timber-framed slate-hung front. Flush-framed sash windows with exposed boxing and glazing bars. Modern shopfront. Rear facade retains original 7-light mullioned window to ground floor with ovolo mouldings, and doorway with ovolo mouldings. Back ground floor room (former parlour) with Elizabethan plaster ceiling with decorated rib work and moulded ceiling beams; earlier C17 panelling. Mid C18 open staircase with closed string, turned balusters and square newels. Part of 1st floor gallery at rear survives; rebuilt as closet with 2-light mullioned window with ovolo mouldings and stay bars; muntin and plank partition and internal half-timbering show traces of painted decoration. 1st floor back room (former hall) with early C17 chimney piece with bolection moulding. Grade II* for interior.

Listing NGR: SX8031160427

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