Blackmoor House
BLACKMOOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1094553
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Blackmoor House
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKMOOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1094553
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Blackmoor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKMOOR HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKMOOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Selborne
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 77987 32870
Details
SELBORNE BLACKMOOR SU 73 SE 6/12 Blackmoor House 2.8.73 II*
Country mansion,now divided into flats. 1869, with extensions of 1882, by Alfred Waterhouse, for Sir Roundel Palmer (1st Earl of Selborne). The walls are polygonal malmstone with Bath stone dressings (quoins, plinth, mullions and transoms). Tiled roof with dormers and the wing has gables above the upper windows; tall stacks. A building of complex asymmetry, of mainly C16 French and English style, with some Gothic details; 2 storeys and attic. The front (south) of the main block has 3.1.3 windows, arranged as 2-storeyed splayed bays beneath massive gables, and there is a later lower wing to the west side, of 2 storeys and attic, 1.3 windows. Sashes. North (entrance) elevation: a massive tapered stack containing an armorial panel, a projecting Gothic porch with gable, buttresses and recessed orders. One large and one smaller gable the latter with a traceried (Geometrical) staircase window: beyond is a Scottish baronial style range with prominent gabled dormers, burring northwards to end in a tall massive tower, having a prominent roof and tiled gables. To the north-west extends a low 2 storeyed block with gables, which turns north as a long single-storeyed (former stable) range. Interior: elaborate treatment is repeated in the main rooms and staircase of the interior. The complexity of the detailing, and the use of many varied gables, results in a deliberately picturesque effect, particularly when viewed from the (north) approach, or from the south-west. (Ref. Country Life. September 1974)
Listing NGR: SU7741632839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 142983
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in September, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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