Listed Building record TQ 44 SE 106 - WAYSTRODE MANOR

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 COWDEN COWDEN Spode Lane Waystrode Manor
TQ 4540 8/335 TQ 4640 8/335 10.9.54.
II*
2. Restored Cl5 farmhouse With later Cl6 and Cl7 additions. Waned structure With vertical half timbering and plaster infilling. 2 storeys and attic gable end window. Modern leaded paned fenestration. North elevation. 2 end gables connected by ridge tile roof in centre. Brick Tudor stacks with random stone at base. To left. Early C17 addition with oversailing attic gable end with original ornamental bargeboards and pendants and brackets. Carved oak crosspiece. Projecting bay with mullioned and trmnsomed windows on ground and 1st floor and attic casement above. In centre. 2 storeys and ridge tile roof and stack. Modern projecting tile porch. Carved oak studded door with 4-centred arched headpiece. To right. 2 storeys with 1st floor oversailing and supported on exposed joists and gable end above with original Gothic bargeboards. Inside much exposed timber and stone inglenook.
Listing NGR: TQ4599240584

Description from record TQ 44 SE 2 :
[TQ 4599 4058] WAYSTRODE MANOR [NR] (1) Waystrode, Cowden, generally known as Wood's Farm, dates to the late 15th/early 16th c. It is [1895] in a dilapidated condition (2) Now restored (3) (2-3) Waystrode Manor (name plate) has been added to and restored but it retains its 15/16th c. character. AO/52/7/3 - N. front. (4) 5280 COWDEN COWDEN Spode Lane Waystrode Manor TQ 4540 8/335 TQ 4640 8/335 10.9.54. II* 2. Restored C15 farmhouse with later C16 and C17 additions. Framed structure with vertical half timbering and plaster infilling. 2 storeys and attic gable end window. Modern leaded paned fenestration. North elevation. 2 end gables connected by ridge tile roof in centre. Brick Tudor stacks with random stone at base. To left. Early C17 addition with oversailing attic gable end with original ornamental bargeboards and pendants and brackets. Carved oak crosspiece. Projecting bay with mullioned and transomed windows on ground and 1st floor and attic casement above. (5) Waystrode Manor. A impressive display of closely set studs. Recessed centre between three-storeyed gables, the left one higher, the right one with an elaborate barge-board. (6)

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

THE FRONT OF WAYSTRODE MANOR TAKEN FROM THE NORTH. (Photograph). SKE1394.

<1> OS 6" 1961. (OS Card Reference). SKE48370.

<2> Arch Cant 21, 1895, pp 105-8 (illust.) (G. Leveson- Gower) (OS Card Reference). SKE34490.

<3> MHLG Prov List Sevenoaks R.D., April 1949, p.41, No.22/27. (OS Card Reference). SKE47159.

<4> F1 CFW 17-DEC-62 (OS Card Reference). SKE42607.

<5> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks Kent RD of Sevenoaks Jan 1975 (OS Card Reference). SKE41003.

<6> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 241-2 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37977.

<7> Field report for monument TQ 44 SE 2 - December, 1962 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2656.