Priory Lodge

Priory Lodge is a house, originally a rectory, dating back to the 16th century. It was altered in the 18th century and largely rebuilt around 1900. The house is timber-framed. The north front has an ashlar plinth with incised rendering to the ground floor, and aprons to the first-floor windows. The first floor is clad in tile hanging, both plain and scalloped. It has a plain tiled roof with coupled square end stacks featuring oversailing cornices. A pair of two-storey projecting bays stand out, adorned with sables and carved bargeboards topped with finials. Half-timbering, incorporating brick infilling supported by carved bressumers on stone corbels, is found in gabled areas. A small eyebrow dormer is situated in the centre of the roof. The house is two storeys and has attics; the front has a three-window arrangement. It features six-light transom and mullion windows in the outer bays, and a four-light mullioned window in the centre above the porch, between the projecting bays. The porch has a moulded cornice with a neo-Baroque profile, culminating in a low-pitched scroll pediment. A square door surround holds a Tudor-arched doorway with a boarded and ribbed door, flanked by windows. A hoodmould covers all three openings. The porch is flanked by hopper heads with Arts and Crafts detailing. To the right is a dressed stone archway, likely dating from the 15th or 16th century, with moulded stone coping and a Tudor-arched doorway, also containing a boarded and ribbed door.