Limerstone Farmhouse Including Brewhouse

LIMERSTONE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BREWHOUSE, LIMERSTONE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218139
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Limerstone Farmhouse Including Brewhouse
Statutory Address:
LIMERSTONE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BREWHOUSE, LIMERSTONE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218139
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Limerstone Farmhouse Including Brewhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LIMERSTONE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BREWHOUSE, LIMERSTONE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LIMERSTONE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BREWHOUSE, LIMERSTONE ROAD

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:
SZ4414682628

Details

BRIGHSTONE
SZ48SW LIMERSTONE ROAD
1354-0/8/35 Limerstone Farmhouse including
18/01/67 Brewhouse

II


Farmhouse. Early C17. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with
ashlar quoins and hipped C20 tiled roof with red brick stacks.
L-shaped 2 storeys, 3 windows (not regular). 1st floor has 2
triple casements with stone mullions. 3rd window has early C20
wooden architrave. Ground floor has central 4-light stone
mullioned window with stone hood moulding. Left hand window
has remains of C17 stone hood moulding but C19 frame. Right
side window has an C18 stone architrave with later casement.
Cambered headed stone doorcase. Left side elevation has 1 C17
mullioned window to main house and another to the 1st floor of
the wing. Interior has beams with 3 inch chamfers with lamb's
tongue stops. Lounge has late C16 or early C17 panelling and
cocks head hinges. Late C16 oak board painted with text
discovered beneath the floorboards during restoration in 1884.
"Flee sinfull lies flee unkind speeche,
Ye seeke the thing that is above thy reache
And as thou woldst with that others do to thee
So do to them, let work and deed agree.

On this site in the mid C17 an oratory for Black Canons was
founded here by a member of the Tichborne family who owned
this tithing of the Manor of Colbourne from the mid C12 to the
mid C18. Attached to the south is an C18 brewhouse. 1 storey
Isle of Wight stone rubble with some ironstone and peg tiled
roof with 1 brick chimneystack. End quoins. South side has 1
cambered triple casement. Cambered doorway, triangular
buttress and 2 circular iron ties. Casements to rear. Interior
has brick fireplace and queen strut roof with ridgepiece.


Listing NGR: SZ4414682628

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
392932
Legacy System:
LBS

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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