The Priory

SE 55 NW NUN MONKTON THE AVENUE (east end)

2/25 The Priory (formerly listed with "summerhouse and outbuild- 8.3.52 ings west of Church")

GV II*

House. c1660. For George Payler. Brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. U-shaped on plan with main entrance removed from centre of south facade to west facade. South facade: 2 storeys, with attics and cellars, 7 bays articulated by brick pilasters with moulded ashlar bases and capitals and plain ashlar bands. Ashlar quoins. Cellars: 6-pane fixed windows in chamfered stone frames within chamfered plinth. 5 steps to central glazed door in architrave with shell and fruit frieze and scrolled pediment, probably of C20 date. Ground floor: replacement sashes with glazing bars in flush architraves with stone sills, flat brick arches with ashlar keystones and moulded brick hoods. Ashlar band just below level of the lintel broken by windows and pilasters. First floor: replacement sashes with glazing bars in flush architraves, with stone sills, flat brick arches and ashlar keystones. Mid C18 lead rainwater heads. Pilasters support paired consoles which carry overhanging eaves of hipped roof. Attics: 4-pane sashes to hipped-roofed dormers. Corniced end and axial stacks. Left-hand return front has Doric porch probably removed from centre of main front where it appears on a painting of 1773 by Nathan Drake. Interior: central reception room has fireplace with eared surround and relief swags and baskets of fruit. 6-fielded-panelled internal doors with swags to overdoors. Early C18 panelling and festooned closed string chimney-piece to right reception room. Mid C17 staircase with bulbous balusters and swooping handrail. Mid C18 Rococo frieze to central first- floor room. Binney M, Nun Monkton Priory, Country Life, Vol 168, Nov 6 1980. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, second edition, 1967.

Listing NGR: SE5117257910