Building record 1217500000 - THE PRIORY, STOMP ROAD

Summary

Early nineteenth century Tudor-style country house called The Priory, built in 1824.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1309794: THE PRIORY

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Type and Period (1)

  • COUNTRY HOUSE (Built 1824, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Mid C19, built on earlier foundations and altered and added to. Light cream stock brick with stone dressings; slate roof. Two storeys and attic. In a 'Tudor' style with square windows with stone mullions and transoms. Entrance front with a second storey added to the original entrance hall, an oak door with flat wooden hood on brackets and an octagonal staircase tower with 4 windows vertically towards the front and a castellated parapet. The third storey is partly attic with dormers. South elevation has gable framed by twin octagonal turrets with castellated parapets. In one of the ground floor rooms a late C18 marble fireplace with colonnettes and an (ex situ?) centrepiece of, it seems, the Annunciation (B1).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS.
  • <2>SBC19002 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1998. Historic Parks and Gardens Register Review.

Location

Grid reference SU 93210 82152 (point)
Civil Parish BURNHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Dec 22 2015 1:53PM

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