Description

TF 63 SE
4/49

SNETTISHAM
ST. THOMAS'S LANE
Southgate
Coach House and Stable Block, approximately 25 metres east of Snettisham House

G.V.
II

Coach house and stable block. Mid-to-late C18. Pebble dashed carstone with brick dressings, red pantiled roofs. Single storey with attics, symmetrical classical facade with 3 bay centre and 4 and 5 bay ranges to north and south. Of a number of different builds; partly converted at north from a barn, straight joint addition at south. 3 bay centrepiece with pedimented gable and depressed arch carriage entrance with ceiling. C20 opening inserted to north. C19 boarded 2 leaf coach doors to south. Pediment with 2 oculi and dove-cote opening. North wing, 4 irregular bays: 2 openings to north C20 2 to south C18, one segmental window with fanlight arrangement of glazing bars, one segmental fanlight headed glazing barred door. Roof without covering, frames surviving of C18 segmental gabled dormers, partly with surviving panes and glazing bas. South range, 5 bays with 2 segmental fan-light headed doors. 4 segmental fanlight windows all without appropriate glazing bars; at south one surviving window with fanlight glazing bars. 2 C18 dormers. Brick eaves. On ridge of pedimented centre gable, octagonal wooden cupola with arched sides and hipped roof. Clock and bell formerly in situ dated 1799 : Harding, Snettisham, (1982), pp. 72-73.

Listing NGR: TF6905533361

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26445974

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey