Ken Hill
KEN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077874
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Ken Hill
- Statutory Address:
- KEN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077874
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Ken Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEN HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KEN HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Snettisham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 67535 34938
Details
TF 63 SE SNETTISHAM KEN HILL
4/28 Ken Hill. 15.10.81.
- II*
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: "not a gentleman's House" : Building News 2nd May 1879. Squared, coursed dressed carstone, plain-tiled roofs, some free-stone dressings. T plan. 3 storeys at north-east, 2 storeys with attics in centre, 2 storeys at south-east. 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 6 bays, staircase and entrance at north, 3 bay centre, single bay oriel at south, with 4 casement cross windows with 3 ranks of paired glazing barred lights. Gibbs raised rusticated surrounds with arched heads infilled with keystones. Ground floor has 3 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, 2 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 4 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, 2 storey projection, 2 ground floor arched windows, first floor Gibbs surround sash window with arched half dormer head. Return to garden with 2 storey 3 sided canted bow window projection with copper roof, all sashes with glazing bars. At north-east returned gable wing containing dining room, blank ground floor, first floor 3 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 3 Gibbs surround blank niches screening service court to rear. At rear 3 storey service pile with returned south gable wing. Contemporary service wing at rear with 2 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 C17 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. "The freedom from the imitation of anything in particular and yet the character of period allegiance are indeed Remarkable" (Pevsner, North West Norfolk (1962) p.318, Mark Girouard, Victorian Country House, (2nd ed 1979), pp. 366-374, ibid Sweetness and Light, (1977) pp. 118-119.
Listing NGR: TF6753534938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221413
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971), 366-374
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North West and South Norfolk, (1962), 318
Stevenson, , House Architecture, (1880)
Girouard, M, Sweetness And Light, the Queen Anne Movement 1860 -1900, (1977 ), 118-119
Building News in 2 May, (1879)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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