BISTERNE MANOR HOUSE

BISTERNE MANOR HOUSE, B3347

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1094981
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1964
List Entry Name:: BISTERNE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BISTERNE MANOR HOUSE, B3347

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1094981
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1964
List Entry Name:: BISTERNE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BISTERNE MANOR HOUSE, B3347

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BISTERNE MANOR HOUSE, B3347

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: New Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Ringwood
National Park:: NEW FOREST
National Grid Reference:: SU 15118 00788

Details

SU 10 SE RINGWOOD B3347 BISTERNE

8/8 Bisterne Manor House

30.9.64 II

Manor House. Possibly late C15, early C16, late C16 remodelled mid/late C17 and early/mid C19, restored mid C20. Brick and stone rendered (with incised masonry lines), stone quotas, slate roof. Rectangular plan of main west front facing road, remainder being irregular (on far wall of a west front roof a C16 window indicates original central courtyard). Main front 2 storeys on raised basement, recessed 5 centre bays and gabled projecting wings. Moulded plinth. Flanking wings have gable walls, on outer slope resting on kneeler, inner carried inward as beginning of parapet around front. Below 1½ storey projecting porch, with ramped stone steps parallel to front. LH porch C16 as it gave access to screens passage,it has Compton arms over door, RH porch has date 1652 and Berkeley arms. The doorways are arched openings with stone columns and on parapets over carved recumbent hounds. Wings have 2-mullion transomed windows, and 2-light window to front side of porches. Central part has 3-light mullioned transomed window, each side 2-mullioned transom window. Moulded 1st floor string. On 1st floor similar windows, and 2-light lower set windows, over porches, to end bays Pineapple ornaments built into wall over each window in low parapet with moulded coping. Behind ridge in centre and at each end on wings, large rendered stacks. Inside under front range large rib-vaulted undercroft, late C16, possibly re- modelling earlier. Behind RH porch late C17 heavy staircase. In wing at LH side, in far corner huge C16 fireplace of former kitchen, and early C17 staircase beside. For interior see Country Life; 1955; p240-243, p286-289. Buildings of England; Hampshire; Pevsner; Penguin; 1966; p110.

Listing NGR: SP1511500785

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Legacy System number:: 143657
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 110
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1955), 240-243
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1955), 286-289

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.