Sheat Manor

Sheat Manor is a manor house in Chillerton, on the Isle of Wight, England. Considered to be one of the island's antiquities,[1] Sheat manor house, is a fine old gabled mansion now used as a farmhouse. It has a pond and swans. It contains some interesting Jacobite carving. Sheat was one of the few properties whose Anglo-Saxon owner, Alaric, was not disturbed by the Norman invasion. It was run by the Urry family for some time.

References

  1. Bacon, George Washington (1885). Tourists' guide and handbook to England and Wales. G.W. Bacon. pp. 5–. Retrieved 8 July 2011.

Coordinates: 50°39′29″N 1°18′10″W / 50.6580°N 1.3029°W / 50.6580; -1.3029

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