Landing House
LANDING HOUSE, PIER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1389288
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Landing House
- Statutory Address:
- LANDING HOUSE, PIER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1389288
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Landing House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANDING HOUSE, PIER 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:
- LANDING HOUSE, PIER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Cowes
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 52399 95481
Details
SZ59NW
947/5/10005
05-JUL-00
COWES
PIER ROAD
Norris Estate
Landing House
II*
Landing house to Osborne House. 1855-6; by John Blandford, Clerk of Works for the Osborne estate. Coursed stone with dressed stone quoins and coping. Low-pitched Roman tile pyramidal roof with deep modillioned eaves.
PLAN: Central entrance to the basement [probably boathouse] with wide imperial staircase to the main entrance above into the principal floor with its two rooms and central stair hall with a staircase to the rear entrance at the top of the tower. There is a roof terrace on top of the main block and flanking quadrant walls with lower terraces.
Italianate/Tuscan style.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey over basement and 2-storey tower. Symmetrical north east front . Large central round arch to basement flanked by small square windows with iron bars, and wide imperial staircase with shallow steps to central doorway above with small canopy on brackets and panelled door with round-headed glazed top panels; two small square windows either side and central tower above with window at front and occulus above and on each side, the tower has a low-pitched pyramidal roof with deep modillioned eaves and a doorway at the rear. Semi-circular pierced balustrade with square stone piers [some missing] and timber beams forming pergola.
INTERIOR: The entrance to the basement rooms is arched. Joinery includes panelled doors, but the staircase was replaced in the C20.
NOTE: There was a large pier in front from which visitors to Osborne would embark. The Landing House was used to house a coast guard as well as serving as a reception room.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.759.
Listing NGR: SZ5239995481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487923
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 759
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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