Preshaw (variously named Presshawe, Presthawe, and Preishawe in old documents) is a manor to the north of
Corhampton
Corhampton is a village in Hampshire, England. It lies on the western bank of the River Meon. It forms a civil parish with Meonstoke which adjoins it on the eastern bank. It is in the civil parish of Corhampton and Meonstoke.
Archaeology
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in the United Kingdom.
In the 19th century the mansion house Preshaw House was the seat of William Jarvis Long, who also owned three farmlands on the estate, Little Preshaw, Middle Preshaw, and Lower Preshaw, to a total of in Hampshire.
The estate was at the time split across two parishes, Little and Middle Preshaw being in
Exton parish and Lower Preshaw in
Upham parish.
It was probably under the manor of Lormer (in
Cleverly) in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
, it having been granted along with that manor in 1542 to
William Paulet, whose descendants sold in 1707 to Robert Kirby, who in turn bequeathed it on his death in 1721 to his cousins in order to pay off debts to his relatives, who in their turn sold it in 1727 to John Long for £7,600.
Long left the manor to Walter, his brother, it eventually ending up in the possession of William Jarvis Long.
William Jarvis Long was the last of the Longs to inhabit the manor, as he sold it in 1898 to
William Baron de Bush who then sold it in 1901 to Reginald Harry Cholmondeley.
The manor house itself is a two story house built of flint with brick dressing that sits on the slope of Millbarrow Down.
Its architecture dates it to the 1630s, although it has undergone two significant renovations and additions; including the addition of two
gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...
s (to the then existing three) on the front of the house as well as an additional block on the east end in the 18th century, and a further set of rooms on the south of the building in the 19th century.
The 18th century additions are close enough to the original to be only noticeable upon close inspection, neither quite matching the older building, the former being entirely faced with brick and having no flint, and the latter using cement.
The windows are not the original wooden frames, and the porch on the west side of the house with its modern door was probably not a porch originally.
Gallery
File:Preshaw House and farm buildings - geograph.org.uk - 90919.jpg, The main house and farm buildings
File:Preshaw Park Hoard.jpg, Hoard
A hoard or "wealth deposit" is an archaeological term for a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground, in which case it is sometimes also known as a cache. This would usually be with the intention of ...
found in 1855
File:Preshaw Chapel.jpg, Chapel
File:Lower Preshaw house - geograph.org.uk - 90922.jpg, Lower Preshaw
File:Middle Preshaw - geograph.org.uk - 90923.jpg, Middle Preshaw
File:Preshaw Down after April snow - geograph.org.uk - 752398.jpg, Preshaw Down
References
Footnotes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William,_Baron_de_Bush
External links
Hampshire Gardens Trust: Preshaw HouseParks & Gardens: Preshaw HouseHistoric England: Preshaw HouseWinchester.gov.uk: Preshaw Conservation Area Technical Assessment, Oct 2001
(pdf)
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Hamlets in Hampshire