Snore Hall

Snore Hall is a house comprising a mid-15th century main block, 1806 east extensions, and an early 19th-century north wing. It is constructed of brick with plain tiled roofs. The original rectangular wing is defined by diagonal buttresses. The south front features three bays over two storeys. It has two renewed arched mullion windows and three renewed timber casements inserted in the 16th century. The gabled roof has three hipped dormers and a square ridge stack towards the right centre, carrying quadruple diamond flues. The buttresses terminate in short corner finials. The west wall features a dado of Perpendicular trefoil panels repeated at the eaves. This dado runs around a projecting, two-storey embattled porch, interrupted by an arched doorway facing south. The porch has a two-light trefoiled lower window with a square hood and an arched lancet window on each first-floor face. Grotesque heads are built into the structure. The west wall's parapet is machicolated to the right of the porch, with a renewed three-light cross casement to the ground floor and a three-light oriel window above, supported by a machicolated apron. Two pinnacles rise through the arcading into the gable head, which has a central panelled turret topped by a domed finial. The north wing, dating from the early 19th century, has three bays over two and a half storeys. The battlemented side bays project forward for two storeys, under a gabled roof with three gabled through-eaves dormers and internal gable stacks. The eastern extension, built in 1806, is broadly similar in style.

Inside, the porch has a tiercer vault on the ground floor with an oak leaf boss. The sitting room has four chamfered bridging beams. The kitchen has one multi-rolled bridging beam with mortices for arched braces (a reused tie beam) and one with ribbon moulding, both dating to approximately 1520-25. An original brick cellar remains. The “Kings room” on the first floor features an oak overmantel dated 1586 with tapering pilasters and two four-centred panels with pediments and fleur-de-lys. An upper room of the porch opens into this room as a solar via a metal-covered door. One attic room was formerly a chapel. The roof has been renewed several times. Two priest's holes are set into a chimney breast, each measuring 2m x 1m x 1m, positioned vertically with a trapdoor between them.