Westover

Westover is a large house located in Calbourne, believed to have been built around 1760 by Thomas Holmes of Yarmouth, although its surviving features are primarily from the early 19th century and altered in the mid-19th century. The house is stuccoed with a hipped slate roof, featuring a moulded cornice and parapet. It has two storeys and nine windows, with 12-pane sash windows set in reveals.

On the east front, the third, fourth, and fifth window bays project, topped with a pediment. There is a porch on the ground floor supported by fluted Doric columns and a triglyph frieze, with double doors that have marginal glazing. Each side of the porch features a curved bay with three windows on the ground floor, also with a cornice and parapet above. The two northernmost window bays were added in the mid-19th century in a matching style.

The south front has seven windows, with the three central window bays projecting and featuring a pediment above. There is a wooden verandah on the ground floor supported by six columns with a triglyph frieze and an iron railing above. The flanking portions and the return front facing west also have a ground floor verandah, but with trellised iron columns and a tent-shaped canopy.

Inside, the house contains an early 19th-century curved staircase with stick balusters, six-panelled doors, and several notable fireplaces. One early 19th-century fireplace features a panel with cherub and shell motifs, while the Dining Room has a mid-19th-century black fireplace adorned with a gold anthemion design. Westover was one of the original Domesday Manors and was owned by Robert Dillington of Knighton Gorges in the early 17th century. In the early 20th century, the house was purchased by Octavius Moulton Barrett, the youngest brother of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.