Snape Hull House With Attached Crinkle-Crankle Wall

RICKINGHALL INFERIOR HINDERCLAY ROAD (WEST TM 07 NW SIDE) 1/117 Snape Hill House with 15.11.54 attached Crinkle-Crankle Wall (formerly listed under Bury Road) -- II Large house. C17 or C18 origins, extended and altered c.1820, part raised late C19. White brick with stone dressings, some roughcast timber frame and red brick to rear. Steeply pitched hipped plaintiled roofs with slates and black glazed pantiles to rear. An L shaped front block interlocking with an L shaped earlier service block to rear to form a half H on plan. 2 storeys, raised to 3 to front; 2 storey and attic service block. 5 bay front: central entrance in a later C19 closed Tuscan porch, part raised 6 panelled door, engaged columns and outer pilasters, blocking course. Single glazing bar sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads. Dentilled stone cornice to added attic with a band below smaller single glazing bar sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads, stone cornice to parapet. 2 stacks with oversailing caps to rear between outer bays, that to left on returned ridge. Left return has a full height canted bay window with French windows towards front, tripartite glazing bar sashes with cambered heads and blocked cellar windows towards rear. To rear an internal end stack, a roughcast 2 storey canted bay with a short 1 storey brick outbuilding at an angle, a boarded bellcote with a leaded finial. To front tight and set back an early C19 bay with a recessed architraved half glazed door, first floor 3:3 pane sash, dentilled cornice, internal end stack, roughcast and red brick right return with some tumbling- in, a part opening transomed 3-light metal frame leaded casement, 3 further lights and a sash to rear. Service block to rear is timber on ground floor brick, all roughcast, 3 bay outer elevation: ground floor central entrance, architraved 6 panelled door with a fanlight, bracketed hood, recessed sashes; first floor part opening metal frame leaded casements, a hip in roof towards front, internal white brick stack to rear gable end, red brick with a tumbled-in parapet. A further service range at right angles behind main early C19 block. Interior not inspected. Attached to rear left is an early C19 red brick crinkle-crankle wall, about 4 metres high with rounded coping, a lower section with a quadrant curve and a door returns for a length of about 40 metres with an offset plinth, angled coping.

Listing NGR: TM0343075441