Manor House And Manorside West

This is a large house, dating from 1686, which incorporates elements of an earlier building and was restored and extended in 1905 by E.P. Warren. The house is constructed of red brick with plain tiled roofs, hipped over a left-hand extension, and end stacks to the centre block and outer ends of the extensions.

The original centre block is two storeys over a basement, with an attic and two hipped dormers. It has five bays, with the central three bays projecting, and features Flemish bond brickwork, stone angle quoins, and string courses above the ground floor, with a coping to the parapet. 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars are set under gauged heads with carved stone keystones; basement windows are under cambered heads. The central bay features reused Jacobean pilasters from the earlier building, with fluted Doric columns on the ground floor and Ionic columns on the first floor. The main entrance is a twelve-panel door within an architrave surround, approached by a flight of six steps with a dentil-detailed flat hood supported by wooden brackets.

An asymmetrical extension to the left of the centre block includes a square bay at the left end and features leaded casement windows. The extension to the right is single-storey with an attic, a seven-bay facade with a projecting centre of two bays, stone quoins marking the angles, and sash windows with gauged heads and stone keystones. The right-hand return front displays a large 17th-century stack and retains part of the original wall from the earlier building, Manorside West.

Inside, a 17th-century staircase, adapted with cut-down flat balusters, is present, as are some panels and foliage band overmantles to two fireplaces. The older house was apparently built for Anne of Denmark and is mentioned by John Aubrey as "Byfleet house”.