Description

SNITTERFIELD

SP25NW CHURCH ROAD
1457-1/9/107 (West side)
05/04/67 Park View

GV II

House. C16 with C18 and C19 alterations and additions.
Timber-frame with brick infill, the front clad in brick and
roughcast; old tile roofs with brick cross-axial and rear
stacks. 3-unit plan plus doubled gabled unit recessed to the
right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics. Top deep timber modillioned
cornice; 2 sharp gables to right end have deep verges with
plain bargeboards.
Entrance to left of recessed unit has moulded timber
architrave to half-glazed door with small-paned lights with
4-centred heads. Most windows have sills; ground floor has 2
1:5:1-light canted bay windows with small-paned glazing with
iron opening casements; first floor has similar windows, 2
5-light casements and one 2-light casement. Gabled roofs. 2
gabled dormers with bargeboards and 2-light casements.
Recessed unit has 2 windows to each floor with small-paned
cross-casements with 4-centred heads to lights; right return
also has 2 sharp gables.
Left return has exposed 3-panel-high square framing and
bargeboards with projecting brick rear wing. C19 brick
2-storey re-entrant unit has top plat band and crenellated
parapet; each face has ogee arch and blind ogee-headed window
with ashlar sill; projecting wing has 2-light window with
4-centred heads to lights. Screen wall continued to left.
Rear has C19 additions: 2 gabled wings to centre and larger
wing to right; left end has lean-to outshut below 2 sharp
gables. Cast-iron verandah removed from front by 1972.
HISTORY: believed to have been the birthplace of Richard
Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's grandfather.

Listing NGR: SP2160859835

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662238

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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)