Pidford Cottage Pidford Manor Pidford Manor Including Pidford Cottage
PIDFORD COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219686
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Pidford Cottage Pidford Manor Pidford Manor Including Pidford Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PIDFORD COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219686
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Pidford Cottage Pidford Manor Pidford Manor Including Pidford Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIDFORD COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- PIDFORD MANOR INCLUDING PIDFORD COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- PIDFORD MANOR, MAIN 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.
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:
- PIDFORD COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- PIDFORD MANOR INCLUDING PIDFORD COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- PIDFORD MANOR, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rookley
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 50444 84651
Details
ROOKLEY
SZ58SW MAIN ROAD (OFF) 1353-0/4/276 Pidford Manor including Pidford 18/01/67 Cottage (Formerly Listed as: SOUTH ARRETON Pidford Manor)
GV II
House. Mid to late C18. Red brick with stone coping and cills. Renewed tiled roof and 2 end brick chimneystacks. 2 storeys and attics, 5 windows. Parapet with stone coping. Brick band at cornice and between floors. 3 modern cambered dormers. 12-pane sashes in reveals with brick voussoirs. Central open pedimented wooden doorcase with radiating fanlight with swags, Tuscan half columns and 6 panelled door, the top 4 panels glazed. Left side elevation has C19 yellow brick gabled porch. Pidford Cottage attached to rear is of C18 appearance. Front of coursed stone rubble with red brick dressings. Tiled roof with external red brick chimneystack to right hand side. 2 cambered dormers. 1st floor has one 12-pane sash and one tripartite 20-pane sash. C20 ground floor window. C18 porch to left hand side, brick gabled with round-headed arch and tiled roof. Attached C18 outbuilding now garage of brick and stone with staggered purlin roof. Interior has Chinese Chippendale well staircase, probably of pine similar to Champion farmhouse (qv item ) and a marble fireplace with plumed capitals. A manorial site first mentioned in 1301, the present house built by the Worsley family of Appurdurcombe and Gatcombe Manor. Connection with Anna Sewell. (C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight: 193; V C H: 140).
Listing NGR: SZ5044484651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392883
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1912), 140
Winter, CWR, The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight, (1985), 193
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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