Down Court Farm
DOWN COURT FARM, DOWN COURT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209259
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Down Court Farm
- Statutory Address:
- DOWN COURT FARM, DOWN COURT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209259
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Down Court Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWN COURT FARM, DOWN COURT LANE
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:
- DOWN COURT FARM, DOWN COURT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Niton and Whitwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ4965678246
Details
NITON AND WHITWELL
SZ47NE DOWN COURT LANE
1353-0/5/207 Down Court Farm
GV II
House, formerly farmhouse. c1721 restored late C20. Built of
isle of Wight stone rubble with renewed tiled roof and brick
chimneystack. 4 bay lobby entrance house of 2 storeys and
attics 4 windows. 3 C20 hipped dormers. 4 C20 casement windows
with leaded lights in original surrounds, cambered on ground
floor. Off central stone porch with hipped tiled roof. Plinth.
Right side elevation has windows with keystones. Interior has
spine beam with 2 inch chamfers and lambs tongue stops. Open
fireplace with large chamfered wooden bressumer and spice
cupboard. Parlour chimney has wooden bressumer. An original
Domesday Manor.
(C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight: 186).
Listing NGR: SZ4965678246
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392816
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Winter, CWR, The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight, (1985), 186
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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