Lessland Farmhouse
LESSLAND FARMHOUSE, LESSLAND LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219050
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lessland Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LESSLAND FARMHOUSE, LESSLAND LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219050
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lessland Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LESSLAND FARMHOUSE, LESSLAND 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:
- LESSLAND FARMHOUSE, LESSLAND LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Godshill
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 54211 82851
Details
GODSHILL
SZ58SW LESSLAND LANE 1353-0/4/174 Lessland Farmhouse 18/01/67
GV II
Farmhouse. Early C18, porch inscribed Thomas White 1729. Front range faced with tile hanging on red brick base at front, other elevations red brick with tiled roof with white brick end chimneystacks. 2 storeys and attics, 3 windows. Gable ends with stone coping and kneelers. 2 gabled dormers with sliding sashes. Three C20 aluminium sash windows. Central brick porch with stone coping inscribed "Thomas White 1729". 8 panelled door. Left side has C19 cement rendered lean-to. L wing to rear is also probably early C18 but of stone rubble with ashlar quoins and white brick dressings. Tiled roof. One and a half storesy. Deep plinth. Gable end with kneelers and brick tumbling in. 1 sliding casement dormer and 3 casements. Interior of front part of house has staircase with splat balusters and chamfered beams with lambs tongue stops. Rear wing has open fireplace with wide cambered surround with keystone, breadoven and above a contemporary wooden mantelshelf on brackets with wooden pegs. One of the original Domesday manors which escheated to the Crown in 1075 following the rebellion of Roger de Breteuil. (C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight: 190; V C H: 173).
Listing NGR: SZ5421182851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392778
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1912), 173
Winter, CWR, The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight, (1985), 190
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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