Building record 0454001000 - YEWDEN MANOR

OWNERS OF YEWDEN MANOR RESIDED THERE 1254-1480, WHEN GREENLAND HOUSE (CASS 01816:01) BECAME THE CHIEF SEAT (B1-2).
Grade II. House, now 4 appartments. Oldest part is probably late C16-C17, remodelled and extended to left late C19, with late C17-C18 projecting wing and lower C19 wing to right. C16-C17 part (No.3) has timber frame concealed by colourwashed roughcast, and flint and brick plinth. Plain tile roof, chimney stack of thin brick to left with 4 diagonal shafts and one square shaft. 2 storeys and attic, 2 gabled bays and one chimney bay to front. Irregular fenestration with leaded sashes to ground floor right, cross windows to first floor and paired casements to attic, most windows leaded. C19 arched door to left. Lead water spout to centre. Large projecting C19 extenions to left (Nos. 1 and 2), are in matching style, roughcast and colourwashed, with tiled roofs and brick chimneys. 3 gabled bays to front, the centre gable smaller, with large transomed wooden casements, canted bay with sashes and cornice to ground floor right, and Gothic doorway in large gabled porch between left bays. C17-C18 wing projecting to right of original part is of flint, mostly roughcast and colourwashed, and has gable to front with 3-pane sash to upper storey. C19 Venetian window to left return; blind turret to centre of roof. Single storey C19 flint and brick wing to far right, with gables over wooden casements and central arched door. Rear has 5 gables with C19 canted bay windows to outer bays and centre. Interior: No.3 has fine moulded and stopped C16-C17 wooden doorcase, originally external, and upper room with C17 panelling and painted stone fireplace. Early C18 staircase with turned balusters, and knob finials. RCHM I p. 187. Mon. 12 (B3).

[SU 7851 8509] Yewden Manor (NAT) (6)

"Yewden Manor is a large house of two storeys and an attic, built probably early in the 17th century restored. .... The stables N.E. of the house have clunch and flint in one wall; the other walls are of late 17th-century brick." (B4)

The outer walls of Yewden House are of great antiquity. (B7)

Yewden Manor. 15th cent. To 16th. Partly rebuilt at south end in 19th cent. 2-storey and attic. Timber frame rough cast. Old tile roof. The left hand part has 3 gables, smaller in centre which is set back. Massive chimney with group of diamond shafts at right hand corner of right hand gable. Extension to right hand with irregular casements, some 17th cent. Some 19th cent. Grade II. (B8)

Yewden Manor, now tenements, has been extensively enlarged and modernised and completely stuccoed over but the N.E. corner can be recognised as part of a probably e. 17th c. house (see Auth. 2). No evidence for an earlier house was seen (see Auth. 3).

G.P.s AO/60/141/6 - rear of house form W. " 7 - N.E. corner from S.E.

The clunch and flint wall incorporated into a 17th c. building is situated at SU 7854 8514. (B9)

No change. (B10)

Insert 1999 (B11)