Kilmeston Manor
KILMESTON MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1095110
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Kilmeston Manor
- Statutory Address:
- KILMESTON MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1095110
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Kilmeston Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- KILMESTON MANOR
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:
- KILMESTON MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Winchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilmiston
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 59095 26404
Details
SU 52 NE KILMESTON KILMESTON
5/43 Kilmeston Manor 5.12.55 (formerly listed as The GV II* Manor House)
Small country house. C16, C17, c1720, c1780, 1894, 1906. Part timber-frame encased in brick, gables tilehung, brick additions, old plain tile roof. C16 timber-frame building of hall with crosswing. Opposite crosswing C17 service wing added and later this side give brick face with decorated brick gable end to service wing, and at other end of hall to projecting 2 storey porch. Porch front has pilasters rising into gable with scroll and ball finials above. 1st floor string course entablature with vine frieze, and modillioned moulded cornice with sash built off it. In gable between finials short, similar entablature below opening for small C18 16-pane sash and above window even shorter length with similar decoration. Other front rebuilt c1720 by Ridge family when they inherited the manor, encasing crosswing in brick and rebuilding hall. When Sir Thomas Ridge, founder of the Hampshire Hunt, was entertaining George III and the Prince Regent, c1780 he built a matching wing to the crosswing with large rooms. House restored internally in 1894 when dining hall built and front door to late C18 end where covered entrance was built. In 1906 this was replaced by bathroom wing and Dutch gabled porch. C18 front has centre part of 3 storeys, 5 bays with slightly projecting central bay, and 2 storey 2 bay wings projecting forward 2 bays. Central 6 panel double door having architrave surround in doorcase of Ionic pilasters, frieze and modillioned cornice, and pediment. Each side 12-pane segmental headed sashes with rubbed brick arches. Above 5 similar windows with all except centre having blank panels below window. 2nd floor has 5 6-pane single sashes with similar features. Wings each have 4 tall 18-pane segmental head sashes, but one in left wing is door with fanlight. Thick glazing bars except in right wing. Lead hopper heads and downpipes. Plain parapet with small stone coping. Roof hipped with small stacks on right side of each wing and behind ridge of central roof each end and to right of centre. Internally in late C17 porch wing early C18 panelling, and C18 staircase and late C18 panelling in late C18 wing built for royalty. VCH; 1908; Vol 3; p 323. 'Buildings of England'; N Pevsner; Penguin; 1966; p309.
Listing NGR: SU5909526404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 145440
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1908), 323
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 309
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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