[1] It is a large U-shaped three storey split level house built c. 1498 and extended 1635.
It is constructed from Plymouth limestone rubble using relieving arches with Dartmoor granite hooded and ogee-framed Tudor dressings to glazed window openings, dry Devon slate roofs and two original lateral chimney stacks.
The front has a distinctive and fine granite transomed bay window arrangement over a decorated and hooded doorway.
[2] The building is owned by The Minster Church of St Andrew and has been used as a museum[3] and a restaurant, but contrary to the misnomer has never been a priest's house, its name originating simply from its close proximity to St Andrew's Church, Plymouth.
[7] Prysten House also features the "Door of Unity" commemorating the War of 1812.