Maryvale Pastoral Centre

SU 94SE BRAMLEY C.P. SNOWDENHAM LANE

4/73 Maryvale Pastoral Centre (Formerly Snowdenham)

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Country House, now Pastoral Centre. 1886-7 by Ralph Neville with Great Hall modelled by J. Bentley. Sandstone rubble and brick below, tile hung above, some timber framing with render and brick infilling on gables and entrance front. Diaper brick bay to front. Plain tiled roofs. Long rectangular plan with many cross gables, and built into hillside with arched basement storey to garden front. Two storeys with attics in gabled dormers on eaves and in roof and with massive corbelled stacks to ridges and on ends. Entrance front:- irregular casement fenestration, mostly leaded with plain casements to single storey service buildings on left end. Single storey brick and stone porte-cochere to right with moulded plinth and arched openings. Massive double doors in stone chamfered surround. Garden front:- terrace extending out on 8 arches with alternating buttresses. End gable to left with front stack and one window on each floor. Framed gable bay with mullioned and transomed windows on three floors, polygonal bay to left of centre under turret roof. Two large gabled bays to right with projecting angle bays rising through two floors under hipped roof, one with massive hall oriel window containing stained glass. Interior:- Diamond pattern wood parquet floor and panelled ceilings with rosettes and modillion cornices in Jacobethan style rooms to garden front. Room to end left with scroll-capped, fluted pilasters on walls on diamond pattern pedestals. Fine fireplace overmantelwith scroll brackets and fat baluster supports with gadroon type decoration. Pedimented door surrounds. Great Hall:- By J. Bentley, Square panelled ceilings and panelled walls. Gallery to one end with side stair- cases - Jacobethan style. Coved cornice to roof with animal decoration. Ceiling of trefoil section. Deep fireplace recess to one side with panelled gallery over, three bays wide. Chapel-Formerly Library? - panelled, with deep panelled ceiling.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.118 J. FRANKLIN THE GENTLfMAN'S COUNTRY HOUSE.

Listing NGR: SU9993144142