NHER 47109 (Building record) - Snettisham House, St Thomas's Lane, Southgate

Snettisham House, St Thomas's Lane, Southgate.

October 1984. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"House. C18, refacings and additions 1863, 1883, perhaps partly incorporating house of Cobbe family, here from mid C16 to C19. North and west, garden, fronts scored stucco render, gault brick and red brick returns, slated and plain tiled roofs. North front, 2 storeys, 3 bay centre, 2 single bay gabled cross wings."
Information from Listing Description (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by H. Hamilton (HES), 4 January 2021.


September 2013. Site Visit.
Site of Ingoldisthorpe manor and called Ingoldisthorpe Hall on First Edition. Blomefield (see S2) traced down from 12th century to Cobb family in the 18th century of which there is plenty of evidence and who were responsible for most of the visible devolpment. The park reveals evidence of earlier settlement incuding a Romano British villa, Anglo Saxon artefacts and earthworks.
The house is essentially early 19th centruy, rendered, added to and reduced in the later 19th century. Of the early 19th century are the tripartite sash windows etc. as in (S1). The house has a fine staircase with open string, stick balusters, shaped tread ends and wreathed handrail leading through an archway on Tuscan responds and upwrads beneat plaster barrel vaults to a balcony at frist floor level. This balcony was originally the opening onto a bridge which lead over an open courtyard to the former south wing. This was in the later 19th century but the plan can be seen on the first edition map and in good detail on the 1880 surveyat 1:2,500. There was a large bay window of which the lower parts in carstone and brick can be still be seen and form a retaining wall to courtyard. For other builings on the site see (NHER 47110 and NHER 46551).
S. Heywood (HES), 20 September 2013.