Latitude: 50.6751 / 50°40'30"N
Longitude: -1.402 / 1°24'7"W
OS Eastings: 442353
OS Northings: 86331
OS Grid: SZ423863
Mapcode National: GBR 8BL.LD3
Mapcode Global: FRA 77Y9.9MS
Plus Code: 9C2WMHGX+26
Entry Name: Westover
Listing Date: 18 January 1967
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292706
English Heritage Legacy ID: 393045
ID on this website: 101292706
Location: Calbourne, Isle of Wight, PO30
County: Isle of Wight
Civil Parish: Calbourne
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Isle of Wight
Church of England Parish: Calbourne All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth
Tagged with: Building English country house
CALBOURNE
SZ48NW WINKLE STREET 1354-0/6/157 Westover 18/01/67
GV II*
Large house. Recorded as having been built by a Thomas Holmes of Yarmouth c.1760 but surviving features are of the early C19 altered mid C19. Stuccoed with hipped slate roof. Moulded cornice and parapet. 2 storeys 9 windows. 12 pane sashes set in reveals. On the east front the 3rd, 4th and 5th window bays project with a pediment over and porch on ground floor with fluted Doric columns and triglyph frieze. Double doors with marginal glazing. On each side of this is a curved bay of 3 windows on ground floor with cornice and parapet over. The 2 northern most window bays were added in the mid C19 in matching style. The south front has 7 windows. The 3 central window bays project with a pediment over and wooden verandah of 6 columns on ground floor with triglyph frieze and iron railing over. The flanking portions and the return front facing west have a verandah on the ground floor also but with trellised iron columns and a tent-shaped canopy. Interior has an early C19 curved staircase with stick balusters, 6 panelled door and a series of good fireplaces. One early C19 fireplace has a panel with cherub and shell motifs and the Dining Room has a mid C19 black fireplace with gold anthemion design. This was one of the original Domesday Manors. In the early C17 the manor was owned by Robert Dillington of Knighton Gorges. In the early C20 the house was bought by Octavius Moulton Barrett, the youngest brother of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of the Isle of Wight: 175 AND 198; V.C.H.).
Listing NGR: SZ4235386331
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