Little Priory

This is a house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It incorporates a detached kitchen from the 16th or early 17th century, originally associated with number 65 Fore Street. The construction is of stone rubble and timber frame, although the southern front (facing Fore Street), the east tower, and the north (garden) front are rendered. The west front displays exposed stonework, and parts of the building are tile-hung. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate, with gabled roofs to the west and a hipped roof to the northern block, and a half-hipped roof to the southern block. The fenestration is irregular, featuring an early 19th-century tripartite sash window with a wrought-iron balcony on the first floor of the north front. The roof structure of the southern block has arched braces below the collar, queen struts above, four sets of threaded purlins, and a pegged apex without a ridge purlin. The northern block retains dragon ties and beams at second-floor level, indicating a former hipped roof dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. A principal room on the first floor has a moulded plaster ceiling cornice. A simple early 19th-century staircase is present. A cellar lies beneath the southern block.