Snitterton Hall Farm, Darley Dale, Derbyshire: Historic Building Recording (OASIS ID: archaeol5-371854)

Archaeological Research Services Ltd was commissioned in 2019 by Fisher German LLP to undertake a historic building recording, to Historic England's Level 2 standard, of two traditional farm buildings at Snitterton Hall Farm, Snitterton, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 2JG to discharge condition 3 of both the planning permission and Listed Building Consent (Application Ref. Nos. NP/DDD/1217/1256 and NP/DDD/1217/1257 respectively) prior to the conversion of the two buildings into a dwelling house, office and light industrial use, along with the provision of car parking. Snitterton Hall Farm is a large-scale, regular courtyard plan farmstead comprising an Lshaped barn layout with the stable block occupying the third side of the courtyard. The farmstead itself has undergone alterations in order to adapt to changing needs, as well to accommodate for the expansion of the farm itself. This involved the addition of structures to the north, west and east of the barns which block out certain earlier features in the barn buildings. Historic mapping and analysis of the historic fabric reveal that both Barns A and B were constructed in two individual phases; stylistically they both still appear to date to the late 17th or early 18th century. Evidence of a building break on the northern part of Barn B, as well as slight differences in materials, suggests that this structure predates Barn A.