The Priory, Beech Hill | |
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Type | Country House |
Location | Beech Hill, Berkshire, England |
Coordinates | 51°22′25″N0°59′02″W / 51.37370207759507°N 0.9840061326392457°W |
OS grid reference | SU 70817 64340 |
Built | 16c |
Built for | The Harrison family |
Rebuilt | 1648 |
Architectural style(s) | Elizabethan |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | The Priory Including Adjoining Wall on the North East 6582 6435 |
Designated | 13 April 1947 |
Reference no. | 1117130 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Dovecote and Adjoining Wall in The Priory Garden, Approximately 60 metres South West |
Designated | 13 April 1967 |
Reference no. | 1117131 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Granary at The Priory, Approximately 60 metres to the North |
Designated | 28 January 1987 |
Reference no. | 1117132 |
The Priory is an English country house. It is a historic Grade II* listed building. The house is located southeast of Beech Hill, Berkshire on the banks of the River Loddon. [1]
Originally a hermitage associated with Beaumys Castle, located immediately to the northeast, it was later converted into Stratfield Saye Priory. The priory was dissolved in 1399. [2]
The land was leased from 1558 to 1665 by the Harrison family, and it is presumed they built the current house, which has a date of 1648 on the central porch. [1]
The house is two-storey and three-gabled. It is built of red English bond brick. Northwest of the house are a dovecote and granary. The late 17th-century garden stretches out to the southwest and is bounded by brick buildings to the northwest and a small canal to the southeast. [1]
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