Eastbrook, Westbrook, The Old Coach House, Northbrook, Southbrook and Brook House
Eastbrook, Westbrook, The Old Coach House, Northbrook, Southbrook and Brook House, Brook, Newport, PO30 4EJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209295
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Eastbrook, Westbrook, The Old Coach House, Northbrook, Southbrook and Brook House
- Statutory Address:
- Eastbrook, Westbrook, The Old Coach House, Northbrook, Southbrook and Brook House, Brook, Newport, PO30 4EJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209295
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Eastbrook, Westbrook, The Old Coach House, Northbrook, Southbrook and Brook House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Eastbrook, Westbrook, The Old Coach House, Northbrook, Southbrook and Brook House, Brook, Newport, PO30 4EJ
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:
- Eastbrook, Westbrook, The Old Coach House, Northbrook, Southbrook and Brook House, Brook, Newport, PO30 4EJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brighstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 39154 84189
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/04/2018
SZ38SE
1354-0/7/17
BRIGHSTONE
BROOK
Eastbrook, Southbrook, Northbrook, Westbrook, Brook House and The Old Coach House
(Formerly listed as Eastbrook, Southbrook, Northbrook, Westbrook, Little Quarters and The Old Coach House)
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II
Originally one house called Brook House, now subdivided into flats. The north west wing, namely Northbrook and Westbrook, and The Old Coach House are C18, altered C20, erected by the Bowerman family who held the manor from the C14 until 1792, altered and extended by Charles Seely, first Baronet, c1850.
North west wing is C18. Three storeys, mainly of stone rubble with some brickwork to second floor. Tiled roof hipped to one end. Three windows, mainly cambered twelve-pane casements and projecting stone chimneybreast. To the north west is The Old Coach house, also C18 altered in C20. Built of stone rubble with red brick dressings. Tiled roof with white brick chimneystack. Three C20 hipped dormers. Ground floor has two twelve-pane sashes with cambered surrounds and similar door. Two cross-shaped iron ties.
Attached to the south is Seely's c1850 extension, also in stone rubble. Two storeys; ten windows. Stone parapet with seven urns. Eight sashes with cambered heads and two round-headed sashes, the five windows to the right hand side being blacked out, with the building behind demolished in the 1950s. To the left hand side is an entrance arch and six pilasters. The garden front of Southbrook and Brook House has a projecting two storey right hand bay, small first floor bay to left with larger bay underneath and elaborate stone Italianate splayed porch with pilasters and round-headed arches. Southbrook has a c1850 stuccoed ceiling with urns, swags and floral motifs, a c1850 fireplace with tiled surround, console brackets and ovolo moulding and a c1850 dining room plastered ceiling with circular motifs and bay leafs.Eastbrook has three c1850 pelmets.
Garibaldi stayed here as a guest of Charles Seely in 1864 and there is a tradition that Italian workmen were employed on the ceilings and porch. One of the original Domesday manors.
Listing NGR: SZ3915484189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392912
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Winter, CWR, The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight, (1985), 184
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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