Sheat Manor
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Sheat Manor is a manor house
in Chillerton, on the Isle of Wight
. Considered to be one of the island's antiquities, Sheat manor house, is a fine old gabled mansion now used as a farmhouse. It has a pretty effect, with its pond and swans in front, and surrounding foliage. It contains some interesting Jacobite carving. Sheat was one of the few properties whose Saxon possessor, Alaric, was not disturbed by the Norman invasion.
Manor house
A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...
in Chillerton, on the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
. Considered to be one of the island's antiquities, Sheat manor house, is a fine old gabled mansion now used as a farmhouse. It has a pretty effect, with its pond and swans in front, and surrounding foliage. It contains some interesting Jacobite carving. Sheat was one of the few properties whose Saxon possessor, Alaric, was not disturbed by the Norman invasion.