Priory Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, dating from the mid to later 19th century, with a detached tower house. The main range is a tall, rectangular structure with unpainted render finished to resemble ashlar, topped with slate roofs. A large chimney of rubble stone is corbelled out at the first floor, centrally located on the east front. A detached, northwest tower is located nearby, along with later, lower additions extending eastwards from the left end of the east front.

The windows are predominantly 6-pane sash windows with horns, set within red brick surrounds with triangular heads and slate sills. Two brick window openings under the eaves on the top floor appear to be 20th century additions, although the openings themselves may also be later. A large, central chimney breast of rubble stone projects slightly, built on a rounded stone base, sloping under the eaves and culminating in a circular chimney stack. On the first floor to the right is a grey stone surround framing a pointed-arch former doorway, now containing a long 6-pane sash window. A 6-pane window is centrally located on the ground floor, also within a brick surround, and a 20th-century door is positioned to the right, sheltered by a timber gabled hood. To the left is a single-storey outbuilding with a stone east end stack and a door and window on the north side, with a lower range extending beyond, featuring a window and door on the north side. A two-storey lean-to is attached to the north end of the main range, nestled in the angle with the northwest tower, with an added 20th-century rubble stone lean-to on the north side. Two corbels from the upper corbel table are visible to the left of the lean-to roof. The south end features a gable over a slightly projecting medieval corbelled parapet with limestone corbels, along with a 19th-century brick window with a 6-pane sash on the first floor and a 20th-century rubble stone, gabled, single-storey addition covering a 20th-century door that replaced a 19th-century window. A raised band runs across the end of the outshut to the left. A tall grey stone chimney is situated on the wall face between the main gable and the outshut.

The rear west side of the outshut has 19th-century brick windows, one on each floor to the right, a former door now replaced by a window centrally, and a stair-light to the first floor on the left, positioned at a different height than the first-floor window on the right. The building has close eaves.

The tall northwest tower has a gabled roof to both the east and west, and a short chimney to the east. Stone corbels indicate a slightly projecting top floor, featuring a 20th-century window with a brick triangular head on the west and north sides. The west and east sides are windowless on the lower floors; the north side has a brick-framed, long 19th-century 6-pane sash window at the first floor and two smaller sash windows on the ground floor, all within similar surrounds.

The main range contains two ground floor rooms. The northwest tower includes a vaulted undercroft with a tall plastered vault. A square recess is said to exist in the south face of the tower's south wall (now internal), above ground floor level. A latrine shaft was discovered in the west wall of the vaulted room in 1981. The removal of plaster in the tower's first floor chamber revealed blocked openings to the north, a splayed recess in the northeast corner, and the jamb of a former window to the east of the existing north window. A narrow blocked light is present in the west wall at the south end, and a very wide centre blocked opening is spanned by a timber lintel.