Listed Building record MDO15027 - The Priory House, Greenhill, Sherborne

The Priory House, Late C16th or early C17th with a long 2 storey 3 window front and a modern embattled parapet. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 217 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(41) The Priory, house, 30 yards W. of Upper Cheap Street, has a modern addition on the N. and a modern embattled parapet. The front has some four and five-light windows with labels and probably of 17th-century date. Inside the building, the W. room has an original fireplace with moulded jambs and four-centred head; both the E. and W. rooms have enriched 18th-century plaster ceilings. A room on the first floor is lined with original panelling made up with modern work; the fireplace is flanked by fluted pilasters and the overmantel is of three bays divided and flanked by fluted pilasters supporting an enriched entablature; the bays have each an enriched arched panel.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1964 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 63711694) The Priory House (NAT)

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887441 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 1:04PM