Description

SNAITH AND COWICK HIGH STREET
SE 6422
(south side)
Snaith
12/65 No 5
14.2.67
GV II
House. Early C18 with later C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Grey-
brown brick in Flemish bond; pantile roof. 2-room central entrance-hall
plan with through-passage to left, single-room wing to rear right, later
outshut for stairs and extension to wing. 2 storeys, 6 bays. Entrance to
fourth bay has 2 stone steps to doorcase with panelled pilasters and
scrolled consoles carrying dentilled pediment; 6-panelled door and plain
overlight in architrave. C19 four-pane ground-floor sashes in slightly-
recessed wooden architraves with flat arches with projecting sills and
painted rubbed-brick flat arches with projecting ashlar keystones. Passage
entrance to left has 6-panelled door and plain overlight beneath similar
arch. First floor: original 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, and
blind recessed window to first bay, in similar surrounds. Stone-coped
parapet, swept roof. Interior. Chamfered oak ceiling beams with ogee
stops, exposed joists. Mid C18 two-flight return staircase with ramped
corniced handrail and column-on-vase balusters with squre knops; pair of
half-domed alcoves flanking fireplace to ground floor right with keyed
architraves and Gothick flazing over panelled doors; moulded plaster cornice
to stairhall. Good pegged oak collared rafter roof with clasped purlins, 7
bays to front range, continued over rear wing. Brick cellars with tunnel-
vaulted entrance passage.

Listing NGR: SE6409822115

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455750

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