Strathwell Manor, North And South

SZ57NW 1353-0/6/210

NITON AND WHITWELL KINGATES LANE Strathwell Manor, North and South

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Large house, now sub-divided. Built early to mid C19 by the Rev. Olivier Robert rector of Whitwell but on the site and possibly incorporating elements of a mid C16 house. Built of coursed Isle of Wight stone rubble with tiled roof, some clustered white brick stacks and some terracotta. A rambling plan, roughly L-shaped, with irregular fenestration. 2 storeys. North part has 2 gables with kneelers, 4 casements and 2 storey off-central weatherporch with obtusely pointed doorway underneath with blank shields. South part has end gable with kneelers and saddlestone. 1st floor has 2 light lancet with stone hood-moulding and ground floor has 5 light bay with lancets. Right hand side has an external stone chimneystack, a projecting dormer with pediment and lancet window and double lancet under hood-moulding below. To the right of this is a projecting 2 storeyed gable with kneelers, 1st floor 2 light lancet and ground floor triple lancet under hoodmoulding. On the gable end is a stone bellcote and a single lancet with hoodmoulding below. Left hand side has 2:1 sashes with horns and modern door in lean to extension. Interior has in a lounge a very fine oak overmantel dated 1545 with 4 profile portrait heads, fielded panels, vine leaf tendrils and carvings of grotesque boars heads in a Flemish or North German style. There are said to be portraits of the 1st owner of the house, his wife, son and daughter in law. The 1st owner was Prince Michael Paleologo Kolnett, great nephew of the last Emperor of the East Contantine XI Palacologos. He was born in Pesaro in 1506, married Johana Dauntsey at Southampton in 1524 and died at Combley Manor Arreton (demolished) in October 1551. A will dated 1576 by Princess Johana Paleologo Kolnet bequeaths her son "my mansion house of Strettle which was built and bequeathed to me by my dear lord and husband". The original house remained in the same family until the last of his line Prince James died in 1822. Apart from the overmantel no other features of the C16 house are visible.

Listing NGR: SZ5170877969