Kingston Manor
KINGSTON MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291119
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kingston Manor
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSTON MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291119
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kingston Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSTON MANOR
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:
- KINGSTON MANOR
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 47818 81305
Details
SHORWELL
SZ48SE KINGSTON 1354-0/9/311 Kingston Manor 21/07/51 II*
Manor house. Early C17 building on site of C13 building with late C17 alterations and C19 service wing. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with tiled roof to north front and slate roof to south front and east wing. 2 storeys. Gable ends with kneelers and finials. North front has 3 windows, double stone mullioned windows with hood moulding. The principal feature is a massive projecting stone chimneybreast with half-gable with kneelers to either side with c.1675 brick top of 5 arches with keystones and impost blocks and 5 restored octagonal stacks above. Left side C18 projecting porch with hood moulding and 4 centred arch with double door. South front was originally the entrance front. 5 windows. Late C17 cross windows with leaded lights. 2 storey C17 projecting porch with gable having stone coping, kneelers and finial. Gable has cross window with hood moulding above and shield. Ground floor has obtusely arched doorcase with dripmould. Right hand side has C19 4 centred arched door. East wing is C19 service wing. 5:7 cambered casements with brick dressings. Great Hall has stone fireplace with 4 centred arch. Library has elaborate carved overmantel of c.1685 with central panel of Meux coat of arms and carvings of warlike accoutrements including surrounds, spears and drums similar to the overmantel at Merston Manor (see Arreton Parish). This is one of the original Domesday Manors of the Isle of Wight forfeited by Roger de Breteuil to the king after his rebellion in 1085 and later held by the de Kingstons and Meuxs. (V.C.H. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: 247; C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight: 87).
Listing NGR: SZ4781881305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393195
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1912), 249
Winter, CWR, The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight, (1985), 87
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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