Barton Manor

WHIPPINGHAM ROAD 1. 5270 Whippingham Barton Manor SZ 59 SW 7/133 II 2. 1853 with some earlier origins. An Augustinian Oratory was founded here in 1272 and was suppressed in 1439. A house was built on the site in the early C17. This had largely fallen into ruins in the middle of the C19. The whole estate was purchased by Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort in 1853 and the house almost entirely rebuilt in the old stone in Jacobean style. The north-east front is E-ahaped. Two storeys and attics 5 windows. Built of stone rubble with ashlar quoins stone galleting and rubble plinth. Tiled roof with clustered brick chimneystacks. Five gables of which the apices and angles are surmounted by finials. Also 2 similar gables to the inner face of the outside projecting wings. In the centre is a porch with 2 storeys over, similarly gabled with round-headed archway. Casement windows with stone mullions. In the north-west wall of the southernmost projecting wing are 3 blocked lancet windows from the mediaeval Oratory. The south-west front has 3 gables and 6 windows, all of 2 tiers of 2 lights with stone mullions and transoms. Edwardian panelling to interior.

Listing NGR: SZ5200194453