The Priory

The Priory is a 17th-century house located at the end of a row in Lower Odcombe, originally functioning as an inn, known as The Odcombe Inn until its closure in 1964. The building is constructed of ham stone with squared stone facing, ashlar dressings, and a thatched roof with stepped coped gables, featuring brick chimney stacks at each end. It is two storeys high and comprises three bays. The windows are hollow-chamfered and mullioned. The upper bay one is a two-light window set within a chamfered recess, while the remaining upper windows are in wave-mould recesses, each three-lights above and four-lights below, with the lower bay one lacking a window. The lower windows have labels. Some of the upper window lights contain rectangular-leaded panes. A cambered arched doorway sits within a rectangular recess, sheltered by a deep lintol with a square label, located between bays two and three. A small stairlight is visible in the north gable. The interior, as reported, consists of plain chamfered beams, two fireplaces—one with a cambered-arched stone surround, the other with a timber beam—and a further cambered-arched fireplace in a room referred to as the “Priest’s room.” Elm plank partitioning is also present, alongside open collar-trussed roofs.