Great Tangley Manor Great Tangley Manor West

Great Tangley Manor, a Grade I listed manor house on a moated site, is now divided into separate dwellings. The building has a 15th-century core, possibly originally a hall house, with the main portion built by Richard Cayll in 1584. In the 18th century, Lord Grantley of Wonersh Park demolished the south end of the house. The property was subsequently restored and extended: Wickham Flower employed Philip Webb to restore and extend the house in 1884, and in 1906 Colonel Hegan Kennard employed Inigo Thomas to build the north wing.

The main front facing south-east features decorative timber framing with whitewashed and rendered infill. Brick and whitewashed extensions extend to the south, while the north wing has an ashlar ground floor with roughcast above. Plain tiled roofs, hipped and half-hipped over extensions and to the rear, complete the external treatment.

The entrance front comprises an old range of two storeys with three gables. A small central gable rises above the porch, tied in to a larger gable to the left, with the largest gable to the right and set back. All gables feature double jetties, moulded bressumers across the ground floor, moulded bargeboards, pendant finials, and decorative frames composed of curved diagonal braces forming star shapes or circular frames intersected by rectangular patterns. Square corbelled offset stacks sit to the left of the left-hand gable, with further stacks to the right and large multiple stacks to the rear right.

Two oriel windows of two tiers (of four and five lights respectively) occupy the first floor, each with moulded brackets and diamond-pane glazing. Two flush windows of five lights appear on the first floor of the right-hand gable. A projecting 12-light window (two tiers of six lights) with moulded transom occupies the ground floor of the left-hand gable, while two windows of ten lights (arranged two by five lights) appear on the ground floor of the right-hand gable. A four-centred arched porch entrance in the ground floor of the centre gable leads to a panelled porch and studded panelled door. A two-windowed range to the right has its first floor jettied on a bressumer supported by five corbels, with two leaded first-floor windows and one larger ground-floor window. An oval brick-dressed window appears to the left. A hipped roof break to the left of the old range incorporates a gabled dormer with imitation framing on the ground floor and two leaded casement windows.

Philip Webb added a long entrance tunnel featuring one wall of sandstone and brick and an open timber 12-bay arcade on the other side, which crosses the moat. The tunnel has a gabled end on braced circle-like timbers. A range to the left contains a large gable with one window on each floor and a panelled offset stack on the left-hand return front.

The rear elevation displays a mixture of tile-hung gable ends and hipped wings. The timber framing is of varying scantlings and remains exposed in places, with some arched braces. Offset stacks occupy the centre and left positions.

The interior contains panelled rooms and some Elizabethan overmantels. R. A. Neville reported in 1886 the presence of a crown post roof from the original hall, and stones from an earlier building on the site have been recovered. The original medieval moat, still water-filled, has been incorporated as an ornamental garden feature.