Great Priory Farmhouse (EHER 28110)

16th century and earlier timber-framed house, altered in the 17th and 18th century.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Great Priory Farm [NAT]. <1> Great Priory Farmhouse. House of the 16th century and earlier, altered in the 17th and 18th century. RCHM 4. Grade II. <2> Great Priory Farm, house, barns and probable site of Priory, 600 yards NNW of the church. The house was built probably in the 16th century; and east wing was added at the north end in the 17th century, making the plan L-shaped. Inside the building, on the first floor, is a tie-beam with a curved brace. <3> 2011. Watching brief. During the excavation of foundation trenches for a new extension to the rear of Great Priory Farm Farmhouse, a brick lined well was unearthed. The well located at TL 73674 25829 measured 1.55m in diameter and was reportedly excavated to a depth of about 4.5metres below the present ground level. The well was circular in plan and was brick-lined using large 19th century unfrogged and un-mortared red bricks. The well was capped with a later brick dome capping of smaller red bricks. Map evidence depicts a well in this location on the 2nd Ed OS but no well on the 1st Ed OS, giving a likely construction date of between about 1874-1899. <4> <5> See also: <6>