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Priory House, a Grade II* Listed Building, is built on the site of Dunstable Priory’s hospitium or guesthouse for travellers and the ground floor contains a splendid 13 th century fan vaulted stone ceiling. There is also a Tudor fireplace.

On the dissolution of the monasteries the building became a private house from 1545. One of its earliest owners was the important local Crawley family who later owned Stockwood Park. In 1743 the original stone vaulted hall was incorporated into a much larger house with the Georgian façade we see today. By the nineteenth century Priory House was owned by the Munt family who built a hat factory next to it on the site of the present gateway from High Street South. The factory was demolished in 1907.

Since 1956 the building has been occupied as offices, firstly by Dunstable Borough and South Beds District Councils and, more recently, by a private company.