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Latitude: 51.4146 / 51°24'52"N
Longitude: -1.331 / 1°19'51"W
OS Eastings: 446624
OS Northings: 168615
OS Grid: SU466686
Mapcode National: GBR 81S.6B6
Mapcode Global: VHCZB.WP7X
Plus Code: 9C3WCM79+VJ
Entry Name: The Priory
Listing Date: 6 June 1952
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1290927
English Heritage Legacy ID: 394310
ID on this website: 101290927
Location: Donnington, West Berkshire, RG14
County: West Berkshire
Civil Parish: Shaw cum Donnington
Built-Up Area: Newbury
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Shaw cum Donnington
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Priory
SU 46NE
7/50
SHAW CUM DONNINGTON
OXFORD ROAD (east side)
The Priory
6.6.52
GV
II
House; now offices. C17 and C18 with possibly some medieval work remaining. Brick; knapped flint with brick and Bath stone dressings; and random flint and stone. Hipped slate roof with wooden dentil eaves cornice and two end stacks to right and left. Three storeys, five bays; glazing bar sashes. Projecting keystones to ground floor windows; stone architraves to second floor windows, the middle one of which is painted on. Stone plinth; plat bands between floors and oval brick panels between first floor windows. Central mid C19 Gothic porch with diagonal buttresses and carved coat of arms in parapet. Two storey, two bay c.1800 extension to left.
Interior: Early C19 staircase in oval hall with square balusters; various mid C18 fireplaces. House on site of priory founded in 1393. John Hughes, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, lived here from 1833 to 1851.
Listing NGR: SU4662468615
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