Description

STOKE PRIOR CP AND STOKE PRIOR SO 55 NW STOKE PRIOR (DET) CP 2/108 The Priory 11.6.59 GV II House. C14 origins, altered and extended C17 and circa 1800. Part sandstone rubble with brick dressings, part timber-framed with painted brick infill; slate roofs with bridge ridge end stacks. It is of half H-shaped plan with the wings extending to the west and an external rubble chimney at the north end of the main range. During the C17 it was probably heightened and an additional wing added to the north. Two storeys and attic. Framing: north- west wing has a collar and tie-beam truss with three struts and a V-strut in the apex at its gable end. North wing has three rows of panels from sill to wall-plate. East front elevation: three bays. Windows in the outer bays have narrow timber lintels and there are large 16-pane sashes on the ground floor and smaller 9-pane sashes on the first floor. The central first floor window has a round-arched brick head and a 6-pane window. The central entrance has a gabled timber porch on timber posts, a doorway with a moulded architrave and a 6-panelled door (four panels are raised and fielded, the central two have been glazed). Attic lights at south gable end. The north and south walls of the south-west wing each have a blocked C14 pointed window and there is a further blocked medieval opening at the gable end of the north-west wing. The north wing has a C17 diamond-mullioned window of four lights at its gable end. Lean-to additions to north-west and north-east. The building is said to have originally belonged to Leominster Priory. (RCHM, Herefs III, p 188, item 4; BoE, p 293).

Listing NGR: SO5225856597

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5