Chale Abbey
CHALE ABBEY, UPPER HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218207
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chale Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- CHALE ABBEY, UPPER HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218207
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chale Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHALE ABBEY, UPPER HOUSE 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:
- CHALE ABBEY, UPPER HOUSE LANE
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:
- SZ4860177820
Details
CHALE
SZ47NE UPPER HOUSE LANE
1353-0/5/87 Chale Abbey
21/07/51
II*
House, formerly Manor house. C14 with C15 and C16 additions,
restored and further enlarged in C19. Stone rubble with tiled
roof and casement windows. 2 storeys, 3 windows facing east
and 3 windows facing west. Original L-shaped building built by
John de Langford Constable of Carisbrooke Castle and Warden of
the Isle of Wight in the C14. It consisted of a hall and
undercroft and comprises the south and west wings of the
present building. The hall was subdivided and the undercroft
converted into a kitchen in the C16. The former hall still
retains original lancet windows at 1st floor level on east and
west walls and tall C14 2-light painted window in the gable of
the north front probably divided by a transom when ceiling was
inserted into the hall. In the centre of the east front is a
gabled projection which was added by Thomas de Langham in the
C15 to contain the staircase and extended eastwards by Richard
Worsley in the C16. In the angle of the original L on the west
side is a C19 porch. To the west of the original west wing and
slightly recessed is another C19 addition. Interior includes
staircase with solid core and arched doorcase. Kitchen with 4
centred arched stone fireplaces. 1st floor bedroom with 4
centred arched stone fireplace with high stops and cambered
painted stone fireplace of c.1662 to lounge with arched
openings on each side, the left hand one filled in with
greadoven and the central arch with early to mid C19 fireplace
with paterae and recessed decoration. Reroofed in C19.
(V C H Hampshire: 236; C W R Winter: "The Manor Houses of the
Isle of Wight": 48 - 53).
Listing NGR: SZ4860177820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392686
- 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), 48-53
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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