Description

GATCOMBE

SZ48SE GATCOMBE
1353-0/3/103 Sheat Manor
21/07/51

GV II*

Manor house. Early C17 built by the Urry family. Built of
greensand coursed stone rubble with ashlar quoins, hipped
slate roof and end brick chimneystacks. Half H-shaped plan of
2 storeys and attics: 7 windows. South front has 2 storey
centre and projecting end gables of 2 storeys and attics with
stone coping and kneelers. 5 stone mullioned windows and 2
further blocked windows in sides of gables. Drip mouldidng to
attic windows. Over ground and 1st floors there are bands
stepped up over the windows to form dripmoulding. Deep stone
plinth. Central projecting one storey porch with crenellated
parapet containing a round-headed archway with keystone over
and impost blocks. The inner doorway is obtusely pointed and
has original door of 4 vertical planks. The North front has 6
original 2 or 3-light stone mullioned windows to 1st floor and
2 original stone mullioned windows to the ground floor. The
other windows are casements. Central gabled porch with stone
coping, keystone and round-headed arch. Original 4 plank door
with studs behind. Right side elevation has C18 brick lean to.
Left side elevation has C20 concrete garage not of special
interest. 2 end external chimneystacks, the left one stone to
base and brick above. Interior: hall has early C17 stone 4
centred arched fireplace with fine oak overmantel, having 3
fluted pilasters with human masks below, the central one full
face, the end ones in profile and strapwork panels between.
Frieze with heart motifs. Oak caryatids on each side of the
fireplace. Obtusely pointed stone archway to left side of
fireplace. Also exposed beams and remains of a door surround
chamfered with lambs tongue stops. Partially stone flagged
floor. Dining Room has 4 centred stone fireplace and oak
panelling. Priest hole reputed built into this fireplace
approached by winding stair from the room above. One of the
original Domesday manors. In 1605 Sir William Oglander gave
Thomas Urry 10 oak trees "towards building their new house at
Gatcombe".
(C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight: 137 -
145; B.O.E. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: 746; VCH: 246).

Listing NGR: SZ4937284487

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sheat Manor at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7492224

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]