Description

SNITTERFIELD

SP25NW CHURCH ROAD
1457-1/9/106 (South East side)
07/03/97 Park House

GV II

House, now divided into separate units. C17 with c1840
additions and C20 alterations. Extended for Robert Needham
Philips. Timber-frame with plastered infill on ashlar plinth,
and brick with ashlar dressings: tile roof with brick stacks
with caps to diagonal shafts.
EXTERIOR: garden front of 2 storeys with attic; 6-window
range. Left end is timber-framed with gable; right end has
projecting gable with canted bay window with hipped gable to
right and octagonal pavilion with pyramidal roof and tall
wrought-iron finial; enriched bargeboards.
French window to left end and 2 French windows to left of
centre. Ground floor windows mostly ovolo-moulded
cross-mullioned; bay window has transomed lights; first floor
has 1:3:1-light canted oriel to left end with brackets, hipped
roof and tracery heads to decorative glazing; 2 gabled dormers
to left of centre; pavilion has 2-light windows. Large stack
in roof slope to right of left end gable has clustered
diagonal shafts.
Left end has close-studding to ground floor, square framing
above and decorative framing to gable; left return has similar
framing; gabled wing to left has return entrance with lean-to
canopy over door disguised as close studding; 6-light ground
floor window with narrow canopy and oriel to first floor as to
garden front, but lacking decorative glazing, with 2-light
window to gable; to right a 2-light window with, probably, a
blocked window above and C20 gabled roof dormer; 3-window
brick range to left has windows with chamfered openings to
2-light small-paned casement; cross-axial stack and clustered
shafts to end stack.
Entrance front facing street has gabled wing with decorative
bargeboards to left of centre, porch with buttresses, cornice
and coped gable with panel; Tudor arch and inner door; 3-light
window above.
To left a half-hipped gable has ground-floor projection with
parapet over 2 cross-mullioned windows and 3-light window to
first floor.
To right a C20 entrance and a large stair window. Wing to
right end has later range to inner return with applied timber
framing and gable to right end.
INTERIOR: recorded as having oak staircase, panelling etc.

Listing NGR: SP2152859673

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662237

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)