Snagbrook

This is a house, dating from the 16th century, with alterations in the 19th century. It is located on the west side of Eyhorne Street, Hollingbourne. The house is largely constructed of 19th-century red brick in an English bond pattern, with a decorative grey brick diaper pattern. It has a plain tile roof. The building was originally probably an L-shaped plan, with a stair turret in the re-entrant angle at the end of the entrance passage. The house has two storeys and attics, with a hipped roof. Notable external features include two 16th-century octagonal brick stacks with moulded plinths and cornices to the left, three rectangular filleted flues with conjoined corbelled tops towards the centre, and a corbelled rectangular multiple brick stack to the right hip. There are also two hipped dormers. Windows are irregular, with four casements in chamfered brick architraves, featuring segmental heads; the windows are mainly two-light designs with top-lights, with one single-light window above the front door. A ribbed wooden door is set within a gabled brick and timber porch to the left of centre. A short rear left return wing is also present. The interior includes a late 16th or early 17th century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, a moulded handrail with a guilloche side panel, and moulded newels. A moulded first-floor beam is located above the stair head. There are moulded stone fireplaces on the ground floor and a painted ovolo-moulded fireplace on the first floor. Panelling, some dating from the 17th century, is present in the ground floor rooms and the right-end first-floor room. A 1718 map shows the house with three brick gables to the front elevation and approximately three to the left return elevation.