Snore Hall

TL 69 NW 8/15

FORDHAM Snore Hall

9/7/51

- II*

House. Main south block mid C15, east extensions 1806, north wing early C19. Brick and plain tiled roofs. Original rectangular wing defined by diagonal buttresses. South front of 3 bays in 2 storeys. 2 renewed arched mullion windows and 3 renewed timber casements of C16 insertion. Gabled roof with 3 hipped dormers and square ridge stack right of centre carrying quadruple diamond flues. Buttresses carry short corner finials. West wall with dado of Perpendicular trefoil panels repeated at eaves. Dado runs round projecting 2-storey embattled porch interrupted for arched doorway facing south. Porch has one 2-light trefoiled lower window under square hood and one arched lancet to each first floor face. Occasional grotesque heads built into structure. Parapet machicolated to right of porch west wall with renewed 3-light cross casement to ground floor and 3-light oriel window above supported by machicolated apron. 2 pinnacles extend up through arcading into gable head which has central panelled turret capped by domed finial. North wing of C19. 3 bays in 2½ storeys, the battlemented side bays projecting forward through 2 storeys. Gabled roof and 3 gabled through-eaves dormers. Internal gable stacks. Eastern extension of 1806 broadly similar. Interior. Porch with tiercer on ground floor vault and oak leaf boss. 4 chamfered bridging beams in sitting room. Kitchen has one multi-rolled bridging beam with mortices for arched braces (reused tie beam) and one bridging beam with ribbon moulding, both c.1520-25. Original brick cellar survives. Kings room (first floor) with oak fireplace overmantel dated 1586: tapering pilasters and 2 4-centred panels with pediments and fleur-de-lys: Upper room of porch opens into this as a solar via metal covered door. One attic room was a chapel. Roof several times renewed. 2 Priest's holes set into chimney breast each 2m x 1m x 1m vertically placed with a trapdoor between them.

Listing NGR: TL6240199316