Snows Farmhouse

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PAINSWICK STEANBRIDGE LANE SO 80 NE (North side), Slad

5/10000 Snows Fmnhowe GV II Farmhouse, now house. C17, with early/mid C19 and late C20 modifications. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. An L-plan house, with entry to rear room on inner return, later replaced by gable entry; staircase position not established. Two storeys and attic; the west front with 2 windows, 1994 two-light gabled dormers above 3-light hollow-chamfer stone-mullioned casements with stopped drips to first floor, above C20 3-light replica and one 16-pane sash. Small square ashlar stack with capping to each gable. The entrance front has a 2-light wood casement to the attic, and a 1994 dormer in the adjacent roof-slope to the wing, above a 1994 sixteen-pane sash to a modified earlier opening, a 2-light wood casement, and a 16-pane sash. The ground floor has a 1994 sixteen-pane sash to the left, and a similar C19 sash to the right; between these, in the right-half of the gable end, which continues flush to the wing, is a 6-panel C18 part-glazed door in plain reveals. Irregularities in the stonework on this front suggest that the main range to the left may have been grafted to the earlier wing. The return gable, with an ashlar stack, has a wooden casement at each level, 2-light to the attic, and 3-light below, the latter to reconstructed stone lintels. A low one storey addition with lean-to roof covers the projecting main range behind. The outer end gable against the land slope is plain. Interior: work of modification was under way at the time of inspection (January 1994). The gable entrance faces a C19 stair with stick balustrade. To the right is one room with a heavy and deep-chamfered beam,possibly of the early C17, and to the left there is a stopped-chamfer beam of slightly later date, and a broad fireplace with stone lintel; this room opens through a C19 panelled door to a rear room with a stone-flagged floor, chamfered ceiling beam, and C20 wood bressumer fireplace to chamfered stone cheeks. This room has a wide early 3-plank door on a broad and worn stone threshold leading to the lean-to addition, but probably the original front entry. The first floor rooms have chamfered beams, that to the shorter wing again earlier than the others, and very heavy. A 1994 staircase leads to the attic level, where the long range has 3 bays of roof with heavy principals and two trenched purlins with cross-over tenons, in the short wing the single truss has a halved and pegged collar. The farm is sited on the north slope to the steep-sided valley of Tilley Brook, forming an important historical group with its adjacent farm buildings (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8858408069