Description

SU 94SE BRAMLEY C.P. SNOWDENHAM LANE

4/73 Maryvale Pastoral
Centre (Formerly
Snowdenham)

II

Country House, now Pastoral Centre. 1886-7 by Ralph Neville with Great Hall
modelled by J. Bentley. Sandstone rubble and brick below, tile hung above, some
timber framing with render and brick infilling on gables and entrance front.
Diaper brick bay to front. Plain tiled roofs. Long rectangular plan with many
cross gables, and built into hillside with arched basement storey to garden front.
Two storeys with attics in gabled dormers on eaves and in roof and with massive
corbelled stacks to ridges and on ends. Entrance front:- irregular casement
fenestration, mostly leaded with plain casements to single storey service buildings
on left end. Single storey brick and stone porte-cochere to right with moulded
plinth and arched openings. Massive double doors in stone chamfered surround.
Garden front:- terrace extending out on 8 arches with alternating buttresses. End
gable to left with front stack and one window on each floor. Framed gable bay with
mullioned and transomed windows on three floors, polygonal bay to left of centre
under turret roof. Two large gabled bays to right with projecting angle bays rising
through two floors under hipped roof, one with massive hall oriel window containing
stained glass.
Interior:- Diamond pattern wood parquet floor and panelled ceilings with rosettes
and modillion cornices in Jacobethan style rooms to garden front. Room to end
left with scroll-capped, fluted pilasters on walls on diamond pattern pedestals.
Fine fireplace overmantelwith scroll brackets and fat baluster supports with
gadroon type decoration. Pedimented door surrounds. Great Hall:- By J. Bentley,
Square panelled ceilings and panelled walls. Gallery to one end with side stair-
cases - Jacobethan style. Coved cornice to roof with animal decoration. Ceiling
of trefoil section. Deep fireplace recess to one side with panelled gallery over,
three bays wide. Chapel-Formerly Library? - panelled, with deep panelled ceiling.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.118
J. FRANKLIN THE GENTLfMAN'S COUNTRY HOUSE.

Listing NGR: SU9993144142

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532915

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)