Description

CHALE

SZ47NE GOTTEN LANE
1353-0/5/74 Gotten Manor
15/10/86

GV II

House with linked former brewhouse and dairy. C17 on older
site and possibly older foundation with alterations of c1730,
1800 and 1854. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with red
brick dressings and slate roof. House to west of 2 storeys and
attics. 3 windows, flanked by a 1 storey link block of 1800
and brewhouse/dairy of 2 storeys. House has late C18 red brick
dressings and casement windows on 1st floor of 1854 with
marginal glazing and gables with fretted wooden bargeboards
and finials above. Ground floor has 3 French windows also of
1854 with marginal glazing. Gable ends with kneelers and end
brick chimneystacks. Catslide roof to rear, part C17 or C18
the remainder to west Mid C19 and 3 mid C19 casements to rear.
1 storey link block has French window to south in brick
surround with marginal glazing, to north. 6 panelled door, the
top 2 panels glazed, modern porch and C19 casement to right.
Brewhouse/dairy has to south 1930s 4-light casement and French
window to ground floor. North front has flight of 7 stone
steps curved at ends leading to upper floor and projecting
dairy of C18 date. House contains early C18 winder staircase
with 2 panelled doors leading off. (some on the ground floor
with strip added in centre to make them appear 4 panelled).
Ground floor west room has stone fireplace of mid C17 type
with elongated spandrels and central keystone, but this may be
early C18. 1st floor has 2 panelled doors and spine beams with
beaded sides. 1st floor right hand chamber has 2 chamfered
beams with run out stops and C17 stone fireplace with cambered
top. Roof has staggered purlins with run out stops. Link block
has fine lead water pump with date 1800 and the initials J.W.
and a moulding of Diana the huntress with hunting dogs,
original wooden pump handle and stone trough. Early C19 cast
iron firegrate in room here. Brewhouse/dairy has an ovolo
moulded arched doorway of c.1600 leading from the link block.
Large stone open fireplace with cambered arch in 3 pieces,
breadoven and circular lead lined copper to right hand side.
Large chamfered spine beam with lambs tongue stops one end and
run out stops the other. Flastone floor. To north dairy has a
stone floor and wooden tongued and grooved shelving.
Easternmost room had been used as stabling. 1st floor has C18
softwood roof with staggered purlins and rafters and traces of
lath and plaster. One room has been used as a carpenter's shop
and it may earlier have been used as sleeping accommodation
for hired hands. This is an ancient manorial site recorded in
Domesday Book, with a description of the building of the time
in an inquest report on the death of William de Goditen of
c.1305. In 1313 the owner of Gotten, Walter de Goditen was
arraigned as a result of the shipwreck of "The Blessed Mary"
carrying a cargo of white wine from Aquitane to England, which
was removed by local men. He was fined 287 1/2 marks and a
local record of 1323 records that Walter gave to the Church
"an acre of land with buildings on St. Catherine's Day. On
this land was built St Catherine's Oratory, a scheduled
ancient monument. The owner of the house in the mid C19 was W
H Dawes, nephew of the notorious Sophie Dawes later Baroness
of Foucheres.
(C W R Winter: The Manor Houses of The Isle of Wight: 61 - 65;
Isle of Wight County Records Office: V.C.H.: 238).

Listing NGR: SZ4904279050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504274

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