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LITTLE NORTH COURT NORTH COURT NORTH COURT HOUSE

LITTLE NORTH COURT, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220222
Date first listed:: 20-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: LITTLE NORTH COURT NORTH COURT NORTH COURT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LITTLE NORTH COURT, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220222
Date first listed:: 20-Jul-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: LITTLE NORTH COURT NORTH COURT NORTH COURT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE NORTH COURT, MAIN ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: NORTH COURT HOUSE, MAIN ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: NORTH COURT, MAIN ROAD

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:: LITTLE NORTH COURT, MAIN ROAD
Statutory Address:: NORTH COURT HOUSE, MAIN ROAD
Statutory Address:: NORTH COURT, MAIN ROAD

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

District:: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shorwell
National Grid Reference:: SZ 45686 83211

Details

SHORWELL

SZ48SE MAIN ROAD 1354-0/9/320 (West side) 21/07/51 North Court, North Court House and Little North Court (Formerly Listed as: NORTH COURT)

II

Large house, at time of survey divided into 3 units. Begun by Sir John Leigh in 1615 and completed in 1629 by his son Barnaby Leigh. Exterior alterations were carried out and the interior was reconstructed in the early C18 by Sir John Leigh's grandson Barnabas Evelyn Leigh. The north west wing was added in 1905 by Edwin Lutyens for General and Mrs R W Disney Leigh. The original part is an L-shaped 3 storey building of coursed Isle of Wight stone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof with brick chimneystack. The principal or east front has 8 windows, mainly casements with stone mullioned and transoms. Stringcourse between 1st and 2nd floors ramped up to form dripstones. North and projects with a gable over surmounted by tall finials at apex and angles. The remainder of this front has 3 gables, each with similar finials at apexes and bases. Central porch, approached up 5 steps having shaped gable with finials over containing a cartouche with the arms of Sir John Leigh and the date 1615 but with early C18 moulded architraves with keystone. One each side of the porch in a 2 storey bay of 2 tiers of 5 lights, each top bearing 4 finials. The south front has 2 windows, one of which is a 2 tier 5 light Victorian bay. The north or entrance front was originally of 5 bays but a 6th bay was added in 1905 by Sir Edwin Lutyens in matching style to include a Billiard Room. 3 gables with stone finials. Stringcourses above ground floor and 1st floor. Original part has 1 stone mullioned window to attic but the other windows are C20 cross casements in C18 stone architraves with keystones. Shaped projecting stone porch with finials and shield and date 1637 actually added in early C18. North western bay has mullioned window on 2nd floor and 3 tier 5 light window to billiard room. 2 C18 lead rain water heads and pipes to this elevation. Attached to north west is Little North Court which appears to be a former late C17 or early C18 brewhouse and bake-house altered c.1905 and bears the initials of May Charlotte Julia Leith. 2 to 3 storeys stone rubble. Slate roof with clustered brick chimneystacks. Left side gable with elaborate stone finials at apex and sides. 1:3:2 mullioned windows with hood moulding. Doorcase to left under relieving arch. Stone doorcase under relieving arch with dripmould and side light. Modern plank door. Entrance hall to North Court was refurnished in the early C18 and has a modillion eaves cornice. 6 panelled doors, 2 round-headed arches with keystone and impost blocks and 5 round-headed recesses. Fragments of Flemish C16 glass in windows. Early C18 well staircase with scrolled tread ends and 3 balusters to each tread consisting of 1 plain, 1 twisted and 1 fluted baluster. Fluted column newel post and elaborate scrolled knop. The stairwell is lit by a Venetian window similar to Gatcombe House and Wolverton Manor. The Dining Room has an early C19 marble fireplace with engaged Tuscan columns and iron firegrate. Drawing Room has early C18 cornice and ovolo-moulded door surrounds. Library has wooden overmantel from Music Room with painted Benet coat of arms, end pilasters, 1 male and one female term in centre and 2 round-headed arches. The cornice has 2 fabulous beasts and a male and female mask. The house remained with the Leigh family until the 1790s when it was bought by Richard Briel an eminent art collector and friend of Horace Walpole, descended to the Benetts and then to General Sir James Willoughby Gordon who had been Quarter-master General to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War of 1812. His grand-daughter Mary Gordon (later Mrs Diney Leigh) was a cousin of the poet Algernon Swinburne. He wrote much of his epic poem "Atalanta in Corydon" in the libray at North Court. (V.C.H.: 278; C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight: 111 - 117).

Listing NGR: SZ4568683211

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

Legacy System number:: 393205
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1912), 278
Winter, CWR, The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight, (1985), 111-117

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.