The Priory Gatehouse

The Priory Gatehouse is a late medieval Gothic structure built from stone rubble, featuring roughly dressed quoins and voussoirs, along with some ashlar dressings. It has a stone-tiled roof that includes kneelers, coping, apex stones, stone ridge tiles, and a large tiered lateral stack with a cornice on the west gable-end facade. The central entrance is an almost round-arched archway, simply chamfered, with long narrow voussoirs and double wooden gates divided into six sections, adorned with pierced Gothic tracery. Above the archway is a rectangular window with four narrow pointed-arched lights, mullions, carved spandrels, an iron armature, a close hoodmould, and a relieving arch, along with a rectangular apex light.

The west elevation features small rectangular upper lights and a noticeable vertical construction break. The east elevation has a chamfered Tudor-arched small doorway at ground level and a similar first-floor window, which is currently obscured by ivy. Inside the gateway, the floor is cobbled and flagged, with unrendered side walls. The ceiling consists of three chamfered and stopped cross beams and long joists. There is a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with a vertically panelled door and a deep lintel on the front right, as well as a blocked square-headed doorway with a wooden lintel at the rear left. A room above the arch was used as a snooker room in the 19th century.