The Priory

The Priory is a semi-detached house, originally a single house alongside The Little Priory, dating back to the 14th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 16th-17th centuries and the 18th century. The front of the house is a mix of close-studded timber framing, some of which is visible with pebble-dashed infill on the first floor of the three left-hand bays, and random squared and dressed limestone at ground floor level. The left gable end is timber-framed. The roof is covered in stone slates. There are ashlar stacks, one of which was restored in the 20th century.

The main body of the house is rectangular, with an 18th-century range projecting at a right angle to the rear right, now under separate ownership. The house has two storeys and an attic, with four hipped roof dormers lit with hung slate. The front facade has nine windows, each with single and two-light steel casements containing leaded panes. A 20th-century plank door is centrally positioned within a flat-chamfered stone surround. A single-storey lean-to is attached to the left gable end, and the right gable end features stepped coping. Axial and gable-end stacks are present.

At the right gable end, there are two hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned cross windows with cinquefoil headed lights and carved spandrels on the first floor. The interior features two rooms with 17th-century panelling, including a downstairs room with a fluted frieze above the panelling. A large open fireplace has a bressumer beam. Tie beams with deep flat chamfers are also visible.

According to David Verey, the house incorporates a 14th-century hall of four bays, originally single-storeyed and open to the roof. The arch-braced collar beam trusses have largely been cut back; in 1975, one brace with a bowtell moulding springing from a semi-octagonal wall post with a moulded capital was noted. Interior inspection was limited. In 1538, the house belonged to Llanthony Priory and was known as the manor house or rectory.