Way House and Wayborough House, and Garden Wall Attached is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Way House and Wayborough House, and Garden Wall Attached
- WRENN ID
- plain-soffit-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Way House and Wayborough House, and Garden Wall Attached, Wayborough Hill, Minster, CT12 4HR
- OS grid reference
- TR 320 652
- Coordinates
- 51.33904, 1.3299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now divided into two separate residences, located in Wayborough. The core of the building dates from the 17th century or earlier, but it was substantially reconstructed and extended in the late 18th century. The rear portion retains a timber frame and is clad in red brick of varying dates, laid in English bond, with a plain tiled roof. The front range is built of yellow brick with a slated roof, the rear slope also being tiled.
The front of the building is a late 18th-century design, with two storeys, an attic, and a basement. It features a plinth, projecting central section, plat band, pilaster strips, and a cornice. A hipped roof is topped by a flat-roofed dormer and rear chimney stacks. The windows are regularly spaced; the first floor has three glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, while the ground floor has two segmental tripartite glazing bar sashes. The central front door is made up of six raised and fielded panels with a beaded moulding, set within a panelled surround and originally topped with a keyed arch, indicating there was formerly at least two porches. Basement openings are located to the left and right of the central door. A margin light French door is found in the left return.
The rear wing extends to one and a half storeys and two storeys, with a half-hipped roof, and irregular wooden casement and glazing bar sash windows. Internally, the rear wing shows some exposed framing. The original layout of the house is reflected in the internal arrangements. The late 18th-century wing contains principal rooms with acanthus and palmette friezes, and retains original features such as doors and window shutters. A contemporary dogleg staircase with a winder, unturned balusters, an open string with carved brackets, and a stair hall cornice featuring modillions, rosettes, and guttae, is also present.
A garden wall, approximately 8 feet high and 20 yards long, is attached to the north side of the house, along with a small, panelled outhouse.
Local climate
Way House and Wayborough House, and Garden Wall Attached sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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