The Priests House

SO 91 SE ELKSTONE ELKSTONE VILLAGE

3/122 The Priests House (previously listed as Pound Cottages) 4.6.52

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Former priest's house, now detached house. Late C15 or early C16; C20 addition. Random rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; 1 stone and 1 blue brick chimney; stone slate roof, artificial stone slate to C20 addition. 2-storey with attic; 2-room; single-storey with attic addition. Front: scattered fenestration with doorway off centre having timber lintel and partly glazed plank door; two 2-light chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and a timber casement with timber lintel immediately right of door; to upper floor 2-light with Tudor-arched heads; timber casement with timber lintel to left; 2 roof dormers. Blocked Tudor-arched doorway to upper floor at west end, formerly entered up steps; blocked chamfered opening to attic above; ridge mounted chimney added in C19. Back built into bank has projection with catslide roof and small window with chamfered surround to side; upper floor has 2- light chamfered mullioned window without hood and small casement with stone lintel to right; at low level C20 casement with timber lintel. East gable end has rebuilt stone chimney at ridge and C20 addition with artificial stone lintels to C20 casements. Interior not inspected, but said to have arched braced roof to former upper floor hall and an internal Tudor-arched doorway with carved spandrels. Stands in south east corner of churchyard. (N. M. Herbert, 'Elkstone' in V.C.H. Glos. vii, 1981, pp. 210-218; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)

Listing NGR: SO9674612265