Listed Building: THE PRIORY (1.48.5)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 411071
Date assigned 28 February 1952
Date last amended

Description

Former priory, now old people's home. C12, restored C19, with a large C19 addition. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and brick. Pantile and slate roofs. Plain eaves, coped gables with kneelers. 4 gable, single ridge, rear wall and side wall stacks. 2 storeys, plus attics, 6 bays, L-plan. Priory has in west gable a C19 double lancet with 4 centred arched heads on each floor. West front has a C19 double lancet and above, to left, 2 restored single lancets and to right, 2 C19 double lancets. North side has to left a stable door; to its right, a casement in chamfered square reveal; to right again, a C20 casement. Above, a double and a single restored lancet. South front has to left, C19 double lancet and to right, a similar triple lancet. Above, a restored double lancet. C19 extension has to south off-centre porch with coped gable and kneelers, flanked by C19 canted timber bay windows, that to right 2 storey. Each has 2 plain sashes and a pair of French windows. Beyond, to right, a mullioned and transomed casement with hood mould. Above, 2 plain sashes with segmental heads, and to right, bay window with 3 plain sashes. East front has a C20 casement and to right, door c.1984. Above, 3 plain sashes. Rear elevation has segmental headed door flanked by single casements with segmental heads, and beyond, to left, a plain sash. Above, 6 irregular plain sashes. Interior has front room in south wing with half height oak panelling and C16 chamfered ashlar fireplace with joggled lintel and above, a re-set marble ogee window head. Other rooms have mid-C19 marble fireplace with curved brackets, 2 slate and marble C19 fireplaces, early C19 hob grate, and 2 C18 plank doors. (NCC/js)

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Grid reference Centred SK 78194 81185 (33m by 17m)
Map sheet SK78SE
District Bassetlaw
Civil Parish South Leverton, Bassetlaw

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Record last edited

Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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