Guest House including linking range at Pantasaph Friary

Guest House including linking range at Pantasaph Friary

This is a Grade II* listed building comprising a guest house and a connecting range that links it to the friary.

The guest house is a three-window, two-storey range in Gothic style facing south. It is constructed of snecked grey stone with sandstone dressings and roofed in slate with stone stacks. The architectural detail includes quoins, a string course to the first floor, a stone eaves cornice, kneelers, raised copings to the gables, and windows of grouped cusped lancets.

The front range has a projecting stack at the left end and diagonal buttresses at the angles. The central entrance is a chamfered doorway with a shallow-pointed arched head under a hoodmould, containing a late 20th-century door with overlight. To the left is a four-light window with transom, and to the right a canted bay window, also with transom and with parapets. The upper storey contains a three-light window to the left, a two-light window to the right, and a further two-light window to the centre under a gablet containing a small trefoil.

The east gable end of the front range has a pair of two-light windows with transoms to the lower storey. Centrally placed above is a dressed stone oriel window under a hipped stone-tiled roof, featuring a pointed-arched window with two cusped lancets and a trefoil.

The east rear range has a ridge stack with four chimney pots. It contains a three-light window with transom to the lower storey with a single light to its right, and a three-light window to the first floor under a gablet. The west gable end of the front range has no openings.

The west rear range has a lateral stone stack and a small lean-to porch with a planked door under a segmental head to the left and a cusped lancet to the right. A three-light window with transom is positioned above.

A small L-shaped range to the left has a projecting stack to the west end and a four-light window facing south with lights having shouldered heads. There are no openings to the west side.

The rear of the building features two gables with a narrow gablet between them. Cusped lancets appear to the upper storey and flat-headed windows below. The rear of the west range is slightly advanced, with a three-light window to the upper storey and two two-light windows below. A single light appears to each storey under the gablet. The gable of the east range has no openings, and the single-storey linking range joins the wall beneath.

The linking range connecting the guest house to the friary is a low single-storey range running at an angle between the two buildings and joining both to the rear. It features a full-height gabled porch at the centre that forms the entrance to the friary. The porch has a wide moulded Tudor-arched doorway under a hoodmould, containing late 20th-century partly glazed doors with overlight. Diagonal buttresses appear at the angles, with kneelers, raised copings, and a tall finial to the gable apex. Within the gable is a statue of a man holding a crucifix within a trefoil-headed niche, flanked by blank shield motifs. Two-light windows with cusped ogee-headed lights appear under flat heads to each side of the porch. A small bell cupola sits on the ridge between the main range and porch.

A small central gabled bay to the rear of the linking range has an end stack. To the right is a two-light window with segmental-headed lights. To the far left, the range continues as a lean-to against the rear wall of the friary, with a planked door having a Tudor-arched head, a two-light window to its left, and a further two-light window with transom to its right under a gablet.

No access to the interior was available at the time of inspection.