Description

SNAITH AND COWICK GOOLE ROAD
SE 62 SE
(north side)
West Cowick
3/57 The Goddards
GV II
House. 1853 for Shearburn family, with rear addition of c1910. Red brick
with tuck pointing. Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan, with 2-room
central entrance-hall south front, 2 room east garden front with canted bay,
kitchen wing to rear left and early C20 billiard room addition to rear
right. 2,storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Stucco plinth. Flight of steps to
large half-glazed door (6 panes over 3 panels) in recessed flat-faced stucco
reveal, flanked by French windows with margin bars and corniced blind boxes
beneath rubbed-brick flat arches. First-floor stucco band. 12-pane first-
floor sashes with sills and blind boxes beneath flat arches. Deep eaves
with carved ashlar brackets. Hipped roof. Pair of axial stacks with bands
and dentilled cornices. East garden front, of 2 bays with single-bay
addition to right, has projecting ground-floor canted bay window awith full-
length French windows with margin bars and carved bracketed eaves, single
similar window to left; bracketed eaves similar to front. Interior. Open
well staircase with ramped handrail and ornate cast-iron balusters. Moulded
plaster cornices and ceilings (that to ground-floor right particularly
ornate) marble chimney-pieces, panelled doors in architraves etc. One of
the series of mid-C19 suburban villas built at Snaith for the Sherburn
family.

Listing NGR: SE6502421878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630529

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)