Idsworth House
IDSWORTH HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351134
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Idsworth House
- Statutory Address:
- IDSWORTH HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351134
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Idsworth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- IDSWORTH HOUSE
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:
- IDSWORTH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rowlands Castle
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 72935 13031
Details
SU 71 SW ROWLANDS CASTLE IDSWORTH
9/10 Idsworth House
5.5.75 II
Neo-Jacobean mansion. 1852, by William Burn, additions of 1912 by Goodhart- Rendel. Red brick walls in Flemish bond, with Bath stone dressings; plinth, quoins, 1st floor cornice band, parapet cornice and coping, gables with finials lower step and kneelers. Steep slate roof, prominent stone stacks. Near- symmetrical south west front of two storeys and attic, 2.3.2 windows, the two western bays being brought forward slightly with a larger dormer gable next to an end tower, which has an ogee lead roof, cornice with raised centre containing a cartouche, above a large stone clock face: the two eastern bays being brought further forward, with an inner small and outer large gable. The ground-floor centre has been brought forward (1912) and there is an elaborate port-cochere of the Doric Order, with Roman arches within coupled ¾ columns, an arched doorway within. Sashes, the 1912 work has large mullion and transom casements. Other features of 1912 include the dated rainwater heads, and tile-hung parapet. The south east elevation, with similar but unaltered details, has a 1.3.2 window arrangement, with a projecting gable to the second bay, containing a two-storeyed half-octagonal 3- window bay, and there is a rectangular ground floor bay at the north side: further north is a projecting (library) unit of one storey, of similar style but larger features (of 1912). The northern range is also similar (with the library projecting at the east side), but it extends westward to provide a tall front to the service wings, of similar style but of one and a half storeys, with half-dormers; their east- ern elevation forms the west side of the forecourt of the house, with a 1.3.1 window arrangement, end gables, that at the north being tied to the house by a single-storeyed block, that at the south having a carriage arch (now filled). Further to the west are other service buildings, associated with a tall flint wall to the kitchen garden, pierced by a carriage entrance, flanked by piers. The former service ranges are now divided into dwellings.
Listing NGR: SU7290612257
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 142945
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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