Priory Farm

BATSFORD DORN SP 23 SW 5/18 Priory Farm II House and cottage reputed to have been a chapel. House: dated stone plaque 'ANO DO/1614 RO/BARTE WHYTM/ARGRIT/WHYT' over front door. Cottage C17. House: coursed squared and dressed limestone, concrete tile roof with limestone gable coping, ashlar stacks. Cottage: limestone slate roof with flat gable coping left and stump of ashlar stack. Cottage: small coursed limestone rubble; larger squared blocks at right hand end suggesting substantial rebuilding. House: rectangular main body with late C19-early C20 extension rear left and rectangular 2-room cottage staggered forwards attached right. House: 2 storeys, 2-windowed; 4 and 5- light stone-mullioned windows with stopped hoods and C20 casements. Plank door with decorative hinges in flat chamfered Tudor arched surround, off centre right. Stopped hood over date plaque. Large scratch sundial in right gable end. Flat limestone gable coping levelling out at eaves and roll-cross saddle left. Triple flue right gable end stack, twin flue stack off centre left, both with moulded caps and skirtings. Cottage: One windowed; C19, 3- light, stone-mullioned casement with similar C17 window below. C19 plank door with segmental head off centre right, 2-light C19 stone- mullioned casement right of door. Diamond leaded lights to all windows in cottage facade. Single round headed window made out of a single stone slab in rear wall, single light with ogee cusped head above. Both windows possibly reused. Flat gable coping left and stump of central stack. The present building is unlikely to have functioned as a chapel as it is orientated north-south. House interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP2038833931