Apse Manor Country Hotel

The Apse Manor Country Hotel, originally a manor house, dates from the late 16th or early 17th century, with alterations and extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone from the Isle of Wight, with a tiled roof. The roughly L-shaped building is two storeys high. The north wing, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, has three windows, including one in the gable. The gable window has an early 17th-century 3-light stone mullioned window with a dripstone, and below this is an early 17th-century 5-light mullioned and transomed window. A 19th-century casement window is on the first floor to the left, and a 3-light mullioned window is on the ground floor. A projecting two-storey porch to the south features a 19th-century oriel window on the first floor, and a round-columned doorway with a 2-centred arched head and hood moulding on the ground floor. A projecting stone chimneybreast is at the north end. Also present is a single-storey service wing with one mullioned window. The south wing is from the 19th century and features a large gable and casement windows, some with mullioned and transomed windows. The west wing is likely an 18th-century addition, incorporating a semi-circular staircase turret. A 19th-century wing attached to the south, now in separate ownership, is not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest. The dining room contains a late 16th or early 17th century stone fireplace with a 4-centred arch and blank spandrels, along with an oak roll-moulded panelled ceiling and an early 19th-century 6-panelled door. Chamfered spine beams and run-out stops are also present. The building was formerly owned by the Canons of Christchurch.