The Gables

SNITTERFIELD

SP25NW SMITHS LANE 1457-1/9/115 (North East side) 07/03/97 The Gables

GV II

Institute, now 4 dwellings. c1850 with late C20 alterations. For Robert Needham Philips. Brick with ashlar dressings; fishscale tile roof with brick cross-axial stacks with diagonal shafts. Irregular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. Gabled wing projects to left of centre, with left end breaking back from it. Wide eaves and gables with enriched bargeboards with finials; roof has terracotta cresting. Porch to right of gable with coped parapet has entrance with 4-centred head and plank door with strap hinges. Segmental-headed windows have chamfered openings and labelmoulds; ground floor has 2 windows with 3-light transomed casements, and one to left end with cross-casement; first floor has cross-casement to gable with slit above, small light over entrance and single light in gabled half-dormer to right; some casements renewed. Gabled roofs. Truncated cross-axial stack, and cross-axial stack to rear wing retaining caps. Left return has gable to right end with canted bay window with hipped roof over 1:2:1-light transomed casements, cross-casement to first floor has small inserted window to right; recessed gabled bay to left has altered window and entrance with panelled door, single light above. Single-storey wing projects to left, with ashlar 1:3:1-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casements to canted bay to end with hipped roof and C20 casement above; inner return has large porch with Tudor-arched former entrance, now window, and C20 entrance to left. INTERIOR: not inspected. The Institute originally had a reading room, refreshment bar, billiard room and living accommodation. (Sale catalogue for the Snitterfield Estate: 1920-1940).

Listing NGR: SP2140059812