Lodges at Snowshill Manor - Second Hand Book Shop - pigeons relief sculpture

A visit to the National Trust property of Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds / Gloucestershire.

Snowshill Manor is a National Trust property located in the village of Snowshill, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. It is a sixteenth century country house, best known for its twentieth century owner, Charles Paget Wade, an eccentric man who amassed an enormous collection of objects that interested him. He gave the property to the National Trust in 1951, and his collection is still housed there.

The property is located in Snowshill. It is a typical Cotswold manor house, made from local stone; the main part of the house dates from the 16th century. It is a Grade II* listed building, having been so designated since 4 July 1960. Also listed are the brewhouse, the dovecote, some of the garden buildings, the wall and gate-piers, and the group of four Manor Cottages.

Snowshill Manor was given to Winchcombe Abbey in 821 by King Coenwulf of Mercia. Two hundred and sixty four years later, the village and Manor were listed in the Domesday Book (1085) as Snawesille, property of the Abbey of Saint Mary of Winchcombe. The Manor remained the property of the Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 when it was confiscated by King Henry VIII, who included the Manor in his dowry to his last queen, Catherine Parr, in 1543.

The earliest surviving part of the Manor, the rooms named and now known as Dragon, Nadir, Ann's, Music and Seraphim by Charles Paget Wade, was built around 1550 and it is probable that this section of the Manor was joined to a contemporaneous building to the south, which was later demolished. In the 1600s the Manor was again extended southwards and attic rooms added. In the early part of the 18th century the house was owned by one William Sambach, who added extra rooms on the south-west corner in about 1720. He also added a new main door in the south front, placing the Sambach coat of arms in the pediment above it, which is now the main entrance to the house. After several further changes of owner, John Small of Clapham took over the property, being the first of a series of absentee landlords: for the next 150 years the house was occupied by tenant farmers, until its purchase in 1919 by Charles Paget Wade.

Wade was an architect, artist-craftsman, collector, poet and heir to the family fortune. He restored the property, living in the small cottage in the garden and using the Manor house as a home for his collection of objects. By the time of his death he had amassed over 22,000 objects. He gave the property and the contents of this collection to the National Trust in 1951.

The house contains an eclectic collection of thousands of objects, gathered over the years by Charles Paget Wade, whose motto was "Let nothing perish". The collection includes toys, Samurai armour, musical instruments, and clocks. Today, the main attraction of the house is perhaps the display of Wade's collection. From 1900 until 1951, when he gave the Manor to the National Trust, Wade amassed an enormous and eclectic collection of objects reflecting his interest in craftsmanship. The objects in the collection include 26 suits of Japanese samurai armour dating from the 17th and 19th centuries, bicycles, toys, musical instruments, and more.

Pair of lodges. One lodge is the now the toilets, the other is now the Second Hand Book Shop.

Grade II Listed Building

Garden Wall and Lodges to South of Snowshill Manor

Listing Text

SNOWSHILL SNOWSHILL VILLAGE
SP 0833-0933
12/47 Garden Wall and Lodges
to south of Snowshill Manor
GV II
Garden wall, 2 former stables, now entrance shop and W.C., gateway
between. C17, C18, early C19. Coursed squared stone, changing
to squared stone brought to courses, ashlar top to wall, small,
squared stone to lodges, stone slate roofs, ashlar wall between.
Long wall from Manor House between garden and road, 2 single-bay
buildings at right angles with gateway between. Wall viewed from
garden: plinth for about 27m, blocked doorway near house, evidence
of former stepped top to wall (clearer on road side). Two-course,
ridged stone top. Top ramps down slightly at 4 points; two lean-
to buttresses just before gateposts. Wall changes construction at
about 27m from house, angle slightly at 31m, ends at 52m, where
returns 2m to first lodge. Lodges viewed from outside garden: on
right garden wall returns to rear corner of lodge. Boarded door
with timber lintel on left of front. To left ashlar wall,
slightly projecting pier, each end, plain plinth, doorway with
stone lintel centre, bottom half door boarded, upper half
diagonally-set bars. Above plain coping, quadrant up to end
piers, each with weathered cap. Similar building to left, but
with stone lintel to doorway. Important features in garden and
street scene: forms group with Manor House, Manor Cottages and
Church (all q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP0966233778

This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.

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Taken in: UK / England / Tewkesbury / Snowshill (show map)

Taken on: July 21, 2019

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Garden Wall and Lodges to South of Snowshill Manor

Garden wall, 2 former stables, now entrance shop and W.C.

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Long wall from Manor House

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