Walpen Manor
WALPEN MANOR, MILITARY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209209
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Walpen Manor
- Statutory Address:
- WALPEN MANOR, MILITARY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209209
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Walpen Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALPEN MANOR, MILITARY ROAD
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:
- WALPEN MANOR, MILITARY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chale
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 47517 78175
Details
CHALE
SZ47NE MILITARY ROAD 1353-0/5/79 Walpen Manor 18/01/67 (Formerly Listed as: MILITARY ROAD Walpan)
II
House. c.1610 extended in C20. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with thatched roof and central brick chimneystack. T-shaped plan, 2 storeys and attics in gable end. 3 windows with 1 small extra mullioned window on 1st floor. Casements with stone mullions and dripstones. Ground floor windows altered. 2 storey central porch, gabled with kneelers and slate roof. Obtusely pointed arch with drip moulding above. Rear elevation has quarter circle stone projection, once a stair turret. C20 2 storey stone rubble addition with tiled roof and 3 modern casements. Good interior including 2 early C17 stone 4 centred arched fireplaces on ground floor, 2 6 panelled plank and muntin doors, a wide chamfered beam with heart-shaped stops and oak wall cupboard. 1st floor has a ducats room above the porch, left side bedroom with 4 centred arched stone fireplace and lambs tongue stops to spine beam. Main bedroom has spine beam with heart stops and floor joists and 2 6 panelled doors. One of the original Domesday Manors, at one time owned by Quarr Abbey. (C W R Winter: "The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight": 196; V.C.H.: 236).
Listing NGR: SZ4751778175
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1912), 236
Winter, CWR, The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight, (1985), 196
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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