Priory Manor

Heritage listing

Details KINGTON ST MICHAEL THE PRIORY ST 87 NE 7/137 Priory Manor (previously listed as Priory 20.12.60 Farmhouse) II* House, C15 to C17 incorporating part of a Benedictine nunnery founded in C12, rubble stone with stone slate roof and ashlar stacks. Two storeys and attic, basically L-plan, the main range being the former prioress's lodging and guest hall on the west side of the former cloister, and the south wing being half the former south side. Main west front has coped north gable, three ridge stacks and roof hipped at south west angle. Left bay has buttresses each side and cusped 2-light upper window over renewed cusped 4-light, both with hoodmoulds. The next two bays, with buttress beyond have large gable over and mullion-and-transom windows with hoodmoulds 2-light and 3-light above, 2-light and 4- light below, ovolo-moulded except for hollow-moulded first floor 2- light. To right, a large gabled stone slate roofed porch with depressed-arched moulded doorway. Gable,is rebuilt. To right a C15 cusped 2-light with hood with similar 2-light above. End bay has C20 timber mullion window each floor. A C17 drawing of the house shows two tall pointed windows, to great hall, in bays now gabled, buttresses, cusped lights and porch as existing. South range has two bays of C20 timber-mullion windows to left, one bay of 2-light mullion windows, hollow-moulded above, ovolo-moulded below with iron opening lights, then large outside chimney and, to right, one bay of single lights. Rear of south range has original 2-light ovolo-moulded first floor window over 3-light hollow- moulded window to left with blocked segmental arch over 3-light. Single light to right over 2-light, C20 single lights in angle. Main range rear has C20 enclosed gabled porch and two C20 two- lights each floor.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.