Priors Farmhouse Including Farm Buildings Adjoining East

Prior's Farmhouse, with adjoining farm buildings to the east. This is a farmhouse built in the 15th or 16th century, remodelled and extended in the mid-17th century, and remodelled again in the early 19th century when the farm building was added. The structure is built of stone rubble, mostly roughcast, with a bitumenised slate roof with gabled ends. It has axial and gable-end stacks with rebuilt brick shafts.

The farmhouse follows a 3-room and through-passage plan. The large lower end room to the south has a gable-end fireplace, while the hall contains an axial stack backing onto the passage. An unheated inner room lies to the north. The axial stack was built in the hall, possibly before the insertion of the floor in about the mid-17th century, when a parlour wing with a chamber above was constructed on the west front at the high end of the house. A wing, possibly a cider house, was built at the rear of the kitchen at the low right end in the 17th century. During the early 19th century the house was remodelled, re-roofed and refenestrated. An outshut was built at the back and the rear cider house wing was extended by the addition of a long stable or shippon range.

The exterior presents 2 storeys with an asymmetrical 1:1:2 window arrangement on the west front, with a gable-ended parlour wing to the left of centre. The windows are early 19th-century 2, 3 and 4-light casements with glazing bars, with small gables over the first floor. A 17th-century 3-light wooden ovolo-moulded window appears on the gable end of the parlour wing. A 19th-century glazed and panelled through-passage door stands to the right of the wing, with a 20th-century verandah porch on the right side. On the north side of the wing is a stair turret with a lean-to roof. The south gable end of the main range has a lean-to outshut over a projecting oven. The rear east elevation has 3-light early 19th-century casements with leaded panes on the first floor, and a single-storey outshut with lean-to roof below. A 2-storey wing extends to the left, itself extended in the early 19th century as a long stable or shippon range with flat stone arches to doorways and windows on the ground floor and loft windows above. Only one small opening faces the road on the south elevation, with a later 19th-century lean-to on the east gable end.

Internally, the through-passage has a chamfered beam on the left side and a blocked rear doorway, its old plank door and frame now re-used in the side of the rear outshut. The large right-hand end room, formerly the kitchen, contains a chamfered cross-beam with mutilated step stops and a chamfered half-beam over the gable-end fireplace. Its later chimneypiece conceals a fireplace with a smoking chamber and oven. The hall has a large axial fireplace backing onto the passage, with monolithic hollow-chamfered stone jambs and a renewed timber lintel. It contains an inserted chamfered axial beam with cyma stops. The doorway to the inner room has a heavy chamfered wooden frame, its Tudor arch partly cut away, with a studded plank door decorated with wrought-iron hinges.

The parlour contains an ovolo-moulded stone fireplace, with jamb mouldings continued into a cambered timber bressumer. Above is a moulded plaster overmantel with moulded cornice and frieze featuring naive figures, plants, festoons and a plaque inscribed with "P over GI" and the date 1658. A moulded plaster ceiling divides into four compartments with floral sprays and vestigial pendants. The moulded plaster intersecting beams have deep cornice friezes with dolphins linked to gadrooned vases. The parlour chamber above contains a fireplace with moulded stone jambs and timber bressumer, with moulded plaster architraves featuring a frieze of trailing vines, fleurons and cornice. A plaque above is inscribed "GP over I" and dated 1641. Ovolo and cyma cornice mouldings surround projecting plastered trusses. A 7-panel door to the stair turret has scratch-mouldings on the inner side.

The parlour wing retains a 17th-century roof with two trusses featuring halved, lapped and dovetailed collars, trenched purlins and a diagonal ridgepiece. The main range has an early 19th-century roof with two tiers of staggered tenoned purlins. The rear wing has chamfered cross-beams with long cyma stops. The cider house beyond contains a later cider press and a 19th-century collar truss roof. Early 19th-century joinery includes plank doors throughout. A later 19th-century staircase rises from the hall.