The Priory

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1839, on a symmetrical plan; single-bay single-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with pressed or rolled lead ridges, cement rendered central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards on overhanging eaves. Coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered with hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening in square-headed recess with rendered surround framing timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings in square-headed recesses with cut-limestone sills, and rendered surrounds framing timber casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of The Priory.

A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of The Priory estate with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; and the slightly oversailing roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a gate lodge forming a self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 12315012) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by William Bryan (----), 'Domestic Servant - Coachman' (NA 1901); and (1911) by Henry Foxton (----), 'Land Steward' (NA 1911).