COMPTON FARMHOUSE

COMPTON FARMHOUSE, A3055

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219008
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: COMPTON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: COMPTON FARMHOUSE, A3055

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219008
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: COMPTON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COMPTON FARMHOUSE, A3055

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: COMPTON FARMHOUSE, A3055

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Freshwater
National Grid Reference:: SZ 37588 85047

Details

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SZ38NE A 3055 (OFF) 1354-0/5/166 Compton Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C17 (Datestone of 1678 found on brewhouse) altered in early C18 and refenestrated in mid C19 and C20. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with brick dressings, partially cement rendered. Tiled roof with 3 cemented chimneystacks. T shaped 2 storeys. Front elevation has 4:3 windows, mid C19 casements. Left side early C18 2 panelled door in C20 porch. Right side brick lean-to. Gable ends have coping and kneelers. Left side and right side rear elevation cement rendered. Rear elevation has off central stepped chimneystack. T wing has 2 blocked stone mullioned windows. Some early brickwork to left hand side. Deep plinth to right hand side. Kitchen has chamfered 1 1/2 inches wooden spine beam, open fireplace with remains of bread oven and early C18 2 fielded panelled door. Dining Room has beam with lamb's tongue and quirk and C18 panelling. Early C18 turned baluster principal staircase. Parlour has early C18 panelling with dado rail and china cupboard with curved shelves. Butterfly and H hinges. An upstairs end room has beam with lamb's tongue stop and early C18 panelling. C18 winder staircase leading to other end bay where servants slept. Roof of 7 bays with slightly staggered purlins. One of the original Domesday Manors. (C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight: 186; Marion Brinton: Farmhouses and Cottages of the Isle of Wight: 17).

Listing NGR: SZ3758885047

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 393054
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brinton, M, Farmhouses and Cottages of the Isle of Wight, (1981), 17
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.