Priory Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. House, cottage.

Priory Farm

WRENN ID
upper-lime-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1985
Type
House, cottage
Address
Priory Farm, Batsford
OS grid reference
SP 203 339
Coordinates
52.00346, -1.7044
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priory Farm is a house and cottage that is believed to have once been a chapel. The house features a dated stone plaque above the front door that reads 'ANO DO/1614 RO/BARTE WHYTM/ARGRIT/WHYT'. The cottage dates from the 17th century. The house is built of coursed squared and dressed limestone, topped with a concrete tile roof and limestone gable coping, and has ashlar stacks. The cottage has a limestone slate roof with flat gable coping on the left and a stump of an ashlar stack. The cottage is made of small coursed limestone rubble, with larger squared blocks at the right end indicating significant rebuilding.

The house has a rectangular main body with a late 19th to early 20th century extension at the rear left and a rectangular two-room cottage staggered forward and attached on the right. The house is two storeys high with two windows, featuring four and five-light stone-mullioned windows with stopped hoods and 20th-century casements. There is a plank door with decorative hinges set in a flat chamfered Tudor arched surround, located off centre to the right. A stopped hood is positioned over the date plaque, and there is a large scratch sundial on the right gable end. The flat limestone gable coping levels out at the eaves, with a roll-cross saddle on the left. The right gable end has a triple flue stack, while the off-centre left has a twin flue stack, both with moulded caps and skirtings.

The cottage has one window, a 19th-century three-light stone-mullioned casement, with a similar 17th-century window below it. There is a 19th-century plank door with a segmental head located off centre to the right, and a two-light 19th-century stone-mullioned casement to the right of the door. All windows in the cottage facade feature diamond leaded lights. The rear wall has a single round-headed window made from a single stone slab, which is a single light with an ogee cusped head above. Both windows may have been reused. The left side has flat gable coping and a stump of a central stack. The current building is unlikely to have served as a chapel, as it is oriented north-south. The interior of the house has not been inspected.

Local climate

Priory Farm receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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