Refectory at Penmon Priory

The substantial, roofless, remains of a 3-storey range of monastic buildings built of local rubble masonry with limestone dressings and large boulders as quoins. The refectory is a 5-window range with 3 narrow lights to the dormitory and 3 openings to the cellars below; a doorway to the L and narrow windows with deep slayed reveals to the right. The L (W) return has a tall lancet window in the gable apex and 2 rectangular lights to the refectory. A blocked arched window can be seen from the cloister courtyard to the N. The warming room addition is built to the E end and has similarly detailed cellar openings with doorway to the R. There is a single 1st floor window of paired arched lights and square headed openings to each floor in the E gable with doveholes in the gable apex.

The position of each floor is clearly visible in the masonry inside the building; shown as ledges along the lateral walls and joist holes. The warming room block retains lower and 1st floor fireplaces; the 1st floor has square jambs and an elliptical arch, a small carved bust on the L (W) jamb. To the NE corner is a small doorway to a narrow passage to a garderobe with corbelled vault and blocked loop in the E wall.