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

• Historic England Listing
• Byfleet Manor at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q16255974

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings