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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