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Monument details

HER Number:TR 04 NE 153
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE OLD MANOR HOUSE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1599. Late 16th century

Grid Reference:TR 0541 4681
Map Sheet:TR04NE
Parish:WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • MANOR HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1567 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1216736: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE

Full description

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Description from record TR 04 NE 17 :
(TR 05404681) Manor House (NAT) (1) The 'Olde Manor House': small, two-storied 16th c. brick house; refenestrated. Of little architectural interest. (2) No 36 (Ye Olde Manor House) Church Street, Wye. 29/37 Grade II. This is not really the Manor House but the residence of the Bailiff ofthe Manor. C.17 building. 2s 2w. Red brick. Tiled roof. Case ws. Chimney breast on the south wall. (3) Olde Manor House, a small 16th century brick house, has the stumps of two octangonal brick chimney stacks. (4) The Old Manor House. House. Late 16th c. Red brick in English bond with tile hanging to rear wing. Plain tiled roof. Two cell lobby entry plan with rear service wing. Two storeys on plinth with kneelered parapet gable to right and truncated stack projecting at right end and stack at left with octagonal bases to truncated round chimney shafts. (Listed grade II*) [Full description] (5)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0446 0546 WYE CHURCH STREET (east side)
8/222 No. 36 (The Old Manor House) 27.11.57
GV II*
House. Late C16. Red brick in English bond with tile hanging to rear wing. Plain tiled roof. Two cell lobby entry plan with rear service wing. Two storeys on plinth with kneelered parapet gable to right, and truncated stack projecting at end right, and stack at end left with octagonal bases to truncated round chimney shafts. Catslide outshot to left. Two 3 light wooden casements on each floor and old boarded door to left in moulded and stop-chamfered doorway. Garage doors to left in outshot. Kneelered parapet gabled rear wing, partly tile hung. Interior: contemporary staircase rising to attic with finialed principals. Ovolo moulded window mullions (with some C17 glass). Inglenook fireplaces. Clasped purlin and wind-brace roof. "Feare God Honour ye King Thomas Miller 1701" inscribed in attic plasterwork. The house was not the manor house, but the Bailiff's house and used as the town's prison. It originally stood alone in the Green opposite the Church, Market cross and College. (See Wye Local History Magazine A.M. Paterson). Listing NGR: TR0541346816 (7)


<1> OS 25" (OS Card Reference). SKE48250.

<2> F1 CFW 21.05.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42678.

<3> DOE(HHR) East Ashford RD Kent July 1955 63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41161.

<4> Bldgs of Eng NE & E Kent 1983 507 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37783.

<5> Field report for monument TR 04 NE 17 - May, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5131.

<6> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989, (96) (OS Card Reference). SKE40484.

<7> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 25".
<2>OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 21.05.63.
<3>OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) East Ashford RD Kent July 1955 63.
<4>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng NE & E Kent 1983 507 (J Newman).
<5>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 04 NE 17 - May, 1963.
<6>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989, (96).
<7>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #22695 listed building, ]