Description

TM 47 NE BLYTHBURGH PRIORY ROAD

2/18 The Priory
25.10.51

GV II

House. C17 nucleus, considerably altered and extended in several stages in late
C19/early C20 by the artist and antiquarian John Seymour Lucas RA. Timber
framed, brick extension to east, the whole plastered or roughcast rendered;
pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. Windows late C19/early C20 casements with
square leaded panes; asymmetrical entrance porch with overhanging first floor,
4-centre arch to doorway, boarded door with cover fillets; one ground floor
oriel window, 2 2-storey splayed bays, each surmounted by a gabled dormer; one
dormer window and one half dormer. Original stack to west; 2 late C19/early
C20 stacks with tall flues set diagonally. Attached to the west is an annexe
which is largely a reconstruction of a medieval chapel associated with the
Augustinian Priory, although parts of the walling to the west and north appear
to be original ; the remains were formerly incorporated into a cottage. Random
flint and stone, red brick dressings, pantiled roof. 2 bays, brick windows
with pointed arches, Y tracery and hoodmoulds; corbelled brickwork to eaves,
stepped brickwork to west gable, gable end stack. One room of the interior of
the house has C16 beams and panelling from a house at Saffron Walden, Essex; 2
ornamental overmantels were also added in the restoration.

Listing NGR: TM4519675336

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657677

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)