Upper Watchingwell is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Farmhouse.
Upper Watchingwell
- WRENN ID
- fading-transept-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CALBOURNE
SZ48NW NEWPORT ROAD (OFF) 1354-0/6/128 Upper Watchingwell
GV II
Farmhouse now house. Mid C18 double pile house. Front mainly black brick headers with red brick chainage, other elevations brick or coursed stone rubble. Hipped tiled roof with C20 central hipped dormer. 2 storeys, attics and basement; 3 windows. Casements in cambered head linings, all except central one 3-light. Brick modillion cornice and band between floors. Central doorcase with flat wooden hood on brackets and 6 panelled door. 3 stone steps. Left side elevation of coursed stone rubble with deep plinth, perhaps the remaining wall of an earlier house. Right side elevation of brick in English bond with 2 windows. Attached to rear is a 1 storeyed brick brewhouse on stone plinth with brick chimneystack and roof now covered in corrugated iron. In existence by 1774 when the farm was valued with the following description: "A very good New built House with a Barn, 2 Stables, 2 Carthouses, a very good granary and a garden" IWCRO ACC 80/31 (Marion Brinton: Farmhouses & Cottages of the Isle of Wight: 80 - 82).
Listing NGR: SZ4471888353
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