The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 COWDEN COWDEN Gillridge Lane Crippenden Manor House TQ 44 SW 52/294 10.9.54.
II*
2. Built in 1607 by Richard Tichborne who had a foundry in the Parish. Brick and tile hung elevations masking framed structure. Square paned leaded casement windows in wooden frames with wooden mullions and transoms. Irregular building with half hipped gable ends, 2 storeys and attic windows. Modern restoration and additions. Front entrance with antique carved oak frame and double studded doors with carved headpiece. Ornamental carved oak frieze above and plaster infilling on either side of door between vertical half timbering (modern restoration). East elevation. Brick base with stone mullioned and transomed windows. Tile hanging above carried up 2 storeys with guttered eaves, hip ridge tiled roof with tall Tudor coupled stacks.
Listing NGR: TQ4471541736 (1)

Description from record TQ 44 SW 7 :
(TQ 44714173) Crippenden Manor (NAT) (1) 5280 COWDEN Gillridge Lane Crippenden Manor House TQ 44 SW 52/294 10.9.54. II* 2. Built in 1607 by Richard Tichborne who had a foundry in the Parish.Brick and tile hung elevations masking framed structure. Square paned leaded casememt windows in wooden frames with wooden mullions and transoms. Irregular building with half hipped gable ends, 2 storeys and attic windows. Modern restoration and additions. Front entrance with antique carved oak frame and double studded doors with carved headpiece. Ornamental carved oak frieze above and plaster infilling oneither side of door between vertical half timbering (modern restoration). East elevation. Brick base with stone mullioned and transomed windows.Tile hanging above carried up 2 storeys with guttered eaves, hip ridgetiled roof with tall Tudor coupled stacks. (2) (3) Brief description of Crippenden and Titchbourne family history. (1-5)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> OS 1:2500 1973 (OS Card Reference). SKE48215.

<3> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks RD Kent Jan 1975 79 (OS Card Reference). SKE41040.

<4> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1969 233 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37964.

<5> Arch Cant 14 1882 153-6 (W A Scott Robertson) (OS Card Reference). SKE34713.