Description

TQ 06SE BOROUGH OF WOKING MILL LANE, BYFLEET

3/93 Manor House and Manorside West 22/7/53 (Formerly listed as Manor House including GV gate piers and walling) II*

House. 1686 incorporating details of earlier house with restoration and extensions of 1905 by E.P. Warren. Red brick, plain tiled roofs, hipped over left hand extension with end stacks to centre block and stacks to outer ends of extensions. Centre block: 2 storeys over basement with attic under 2 hipped roofed dormers; 5 bays wide, centre 3 projecting, 2 bays deep; flemish bond brickwork, stone angle quoins; string courses over ground floor and coping to parapet. C19 glazing bar sash windows under gauged heads with carved stone keystones, basement windows under cambered heads. Centre bay has re-used Jacobean pilasters from earlier house, fluted Doric on the ground floor, Ionic on the first floor. Centre 12 panel door in architrave surround up a flight of 6 steps under dentilled flat hood on wooden brackets. Extension to left asymmetrical with square bay to left end, leaded casement windows throughout. Extension to right 1 storey and attic under 3 dormers, 7 bays, centre 2 projecting with stone quoins to angles of break; glazing bar sash windows under gauged heads with stone keystones, right hand return front has large C17 stack and part of the wall of the old house in Manorside West.

Interior: C17 staircase from old house with flat balusters cut down to fit. Some panelling and foliage band overmantles to two fireplaces. The older house was built for Anne of Denmark and recorded by John Aubrey as "Byfleet house".

Sources. The VCH of Surrey. S.A.S Collections Vol. XX. Mitchell and Warren A Village of England, Byfleet by Leonard R. Stevens. PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1982 ed.) pp,127.

Listing NGR: TQ0711660280

External Links

• Byfleet Manor at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q16255974

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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