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1878-1879 by J. J. Stevenson for Edward Green of Yorks. Also known as New Hall but a retreat not a country house.
T-plan of squared carrstone and some freestone. Nationally important as first major provincial example of 'Queen Anne
Domestic Revival' style fusing 'free Gothic' with 'free Classic' details. Interior on 'medieval' plan. Central range of six bays, staircase, north entrance; three bay centre with single oriel to south. Gibbs surrounds to windows; elaborate piano nobile doorcase. Single ridge stack, and paired end stacks connected by bridges. Two storey projection in 'solar' position, northeast returned gable wing with dining room. To north, wall screens service court, also three storey
service block. Ground floor interior services except 17th century-style smoking room. Upper floor dining room moulded and carved. Drawing room Neo-Adam; fireplaces with De Morgan tiles. Repositioned overmantel by Jeckyll perhaps from Heath Hall, Wakefield.
Stable court and game larder 1880, larder has original fittings.
Information from (S1)
E. Rose (NAU), 21 May 1984.

Press cutting in file (s2).

English Heritage Listing:
Ken Hill.
House. 1878-9 by J. J. Stevenson for Edward Green (1831-1923), Yorkshire industrialist and inventor of 'Green's Economiser', previously patron of Thomas Jekyll. Sometimes called 'Snettisham New Hall', but built as a retreat, not a country house. Squared, coursed dressed carstone, plain-tiled roofs, some free-stone dressings. T-plan. Three storeys at northeast, two storeys with attics in centre, two storeys at southeast. Reception rooms on piano nobile: dining room, saloon and drawing room arranged to correspond as recommended in Stevenson's House Architecture (1880) with the mediaeval sequence of kitchen/screens, hall and solar. First major provincial example of the 'Queen Anne' or 'Domestic Revival' style, a fusion of free 'Gothic' planning with 'Free Classic' detail. Central 'hall' range of six bays, staircase and entrance at north, three bay centre, single bay oriel at south, with four casement cross windows with three ranks of paired glazing barred lights. Gibbs raised rusticated surrounds with arched heads infilled with keystones. Ground floor has three arched headed sashes with glazing bars, external staircase with stone balusters and coping, with Gibbs surround segmental arch below to ground floor door. Elaborate piano nobile doorcase with fluted columns, baseless pediment with keystone, two leaf raised and fielded oak doors. Casement cross window above with bowed stone balcony on carved brackets with wrought iron railings below and half-dormer head with arch, keystones, Gibbs surround above. String courses at bases and heads of 'hall' windows, pulvinated frieze and wooden eaves cornice. Steeply pitched roof with four sashed and glazing barred dormers with broken pediment gables with central roundels. Single ridge stack, paired end stacks with connecting bridges and pulvinated frieze coping, at south. At south east in 'solar' position, two storey projection, two ground floor arched windows, first floor Gibbs surround sash window with arched half dormer head. Return to garden with two storey three sided canted bow window projection with copper roof, all sashes with glazing bars. At northeast returned gable wing containing dining room, blank ground floor, first floor three sided canted oak-framed oriel Gibbs surround and segmental blank arched head Gibbs surround window above with arched, keyed head, both sashes with glazing bars. Rusticated quoins and blank rusticated panel on ground floor. To north wall with three Gibbs surround blank niches screening service court to rear. At rear three storey service pile with returned south gable wing. Contemporary service wing at rear with two lean- to ranges at north east, curtain wall at north west, 1930s single storey carstone and tiled addition towards garden at south west.
Interior: services on ground floor except for late 17th century style panelled Smoking Room. Dining Room largely moulded and carved wooden decoration, Saloon wood and plaster, Drawing Room entirely Neo-Adam style plaster work with inlaid marble fireplace. De Morgan tiles to many fireplaces. Repositioned overmantel by Jeckyll with base reliefs of Green's sons, perhaps from Jeckyll's early remodeling Heath Hall, Wakefield.
Information from (S1).

Monument Types

• HOUSE (19th Century to 21st Century - 1878 AD to 2100 AD)
• RETREAT (19th Century to 21st Century - 1878 AD to 2100 AD)
• GAME LARDER (19th Century to 21st Century - 1880 AD to 2100 AD)

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• Listed Building
• Listed Building
• Listed Building
• SHINE

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• Parish Summary: Snettisham (Parish Summary)