Description

DURSLEY LONG STREET
ST 7598
(north side)
5/32 The Priory
30.6.52
II

Large country house, now offices. Dated 1520 for E. Webb; early
C19 additions for Frederick Vizard; C20 alterations and additions.
Random and coursed rubble limestone; rendered rear wing; ashlar
dressings; stone slate and plain tile roofs. Two-storey with
attic and cellar; 3-storey addition; 2-storey with attic rear
wing to form L-plan. Front: C16 part to right with off-centre 2-
storey parapet gabled porch; moulded Tudor-arched doorway with
spandrels containing initials EW and numerals MCXX; hoodmould over
and pair of 4-panel doors reached up flight of semi-circular stone
steps. Upper floor recessed cavetto cross window with hoodmould
above doorway; quatrefoil gable vent. Fenestration otherwise
scattered: two large 4-light recessed cavetto mullioned casements
with hoodmoulds to right of porch with 3 leaded timber cross
windows to upper floor. Left of porch 3-light recessed cavetto
mullioned casement with hood, 6-light leaded timber mullioned and
transomed casement over. Two gabled roof dormers. Three-window
fenestration to addition to left, all with keyed segmental arches.
Large segmental arch to former carriageway with C20 glazed infill.
South-east side: C19 rebuilt parapet gable end of front block to
left with projecting central chimney stack; Tudor-arched glazed
door to right with 12-pane Tudor-arched sash over, both with
hoodmoulds. Wing to right has 5-window 12-pane sash fenestration
all with plain keyed architraves, and further Tudor-arched glazed
door. Rendered elevation further right with lower pitched roof is
later C19 addition: 2-window fenestration, 12-pane sashes to upper
floor and pairs of 12-pane sashes to ground floor. Flat-roofed
Tudor-style addition at end of wing. Rear elevation largely
obscured by C20 office additions which are not of special interest.
Interior has fine panelled room in front block with Jacobean
chimney-piece. Another panelled room with latin inscription on
frieze. In mid C19 a stone-vaulted crypt was removed, but
contemporary local newspaper illustratons indicate that it dated
from C15 or earlier, suggesting a religious use for this building.
Mid-late C18 gazebo stands in terraced garden to north east (q.v.).
(D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST7587798288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579067

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