Farmhouse. C16, C17, C19. Built with materials quarried from Beauvale Priory. (1)
Estate surveys betweem 1653 and 18244 mention a building at the Abbey. Built of stone, both rubble and ashlar, with tile infill and some brickwork. Dated to the late 16th century based on building form which has a central stack and may have origins as a small cross-passage house. In the 17th century the building was extended to 3 bays. Possible in the mid-18th century the house was partly rebuilt and enlarged and was used as a working farmhouse. The south bay was rebuilt as a double pile structure. Continued in use as a farmhouse until the mid 20th century. (2)

Trial trenches to assess the potential for medieval footing under and adjacent to Beauvale Abbey Farmhouse. Medieval footing uncovered in 2 of 3 trenches. (3)

See M2284 for Carthusian Priory, M18330 for C16 House.

Country house, Gardens, Farmhouse (SK 4923 4904) subsequent to the
suppression of the carthusian house of Beauvale Priory in 1539 the
priory and its lands passed into lay hands. It is unclear to what
extent its new owners began to modify the priory to convert it into a
country residence. None of the standing buildings appear to suggest
that they have been altered to form a fashionable sixteenth century
house. However a large L shaped earthwork bank encompassing the
northern and western sides may represent part of a formal garden. To
the inside of this bank is a shallow hollow and within it slight
traces of stepping ponds. These slight remains may represent traces
of an unfinished formal garden comprising a walk and ponds. The
tenurial history of the site however implies that by the late
sixteenth century the priory site was owned by an absentee landlord
with the farm rented to tenants. This in turn may suggest any large
expenditure on remodelling the site had been halted by this date.
The present farmhouse is a two storey stone built house with a gabled
roof sitting on the line of the eastern cloister. From a cursory
visual inspection of the exterior of the building no monastic
features appear to have been reused by this house. This is except for
one relocated moulded stone incorporated into the northwest corner of
the house. A number of farm buildings have been built up against the
former priory church and to the south the priory gateway has been
incorporated into a small farm yard

This account is based on an RCHME level 3 survey which is deposited
in the NMR. (4)

AF0662348 RCHME: Beauvale Priory, Nottinghamshire 1:1000 earthwork survey. Part of a national project in conjunction with Michael Aston of Bristol University.Contents : Plan, field sheet, report, ground photography, correspondenceCondition : INTACT

Listed Buildings Slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<2> R. Sheppard, 2005, An Historic Building Survey of Beauvale Abbey Farmhouse, Moorgreen, Notts (Unpublished document). SNT4802.

<3> R. Sheppard, 2005, Report on an Archaeological Evaluation at Beauvale Abbey Farmhouse, Moorgreen, Nottinghamshire (Unpublished document). SNT4804.