Description

WHIMPLE KNOWLE CROSS
SY 09 NW
10/246 Knowle Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse. Early - mid C16 with major later C16 and C17 modernisations, refurbished
in the late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped
with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof, formerly thatch.
Plan and development: 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east. At
the right (north-east) end is an inner room parlour with a gable-end stack. Next to
it is the hall with an axial stack backing onto the passage. Lower end kitchen with
projecting rear lateral stack and and at the left end a small with an end stack.
This stack is a late C19 insertion. This was formerly an unheated dairy or buttery.
The roofspace was inaccessible at the time of this survey and therefore it was not
possible to determine the early structural history of the house. Nevertheless
smoke-blackened timbers are reported here and therefore the house was probably built
in the early C16 and then the hall at least was open to the roof and heated by an
open hearth fire. Also many of the early features are hidden behind late C19 and
C20 plaster. 2 storeys with C19 lean-to outshots to rear.
Exterior: irregular 4-window front of late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars.
The passage front doorway is slightly left of centre and it contains a late C19
part-glazed 6-panel door benind a C20 gabled rustic porch. Secondary doorway at the
left end contains a C20 door. Roof is gable-ended.
Interior: is largely the result of the late C19 modernisation but this appears to
have superficial. All the fireplaces are blocked by C19 and C20 grates. The 3 main
rooms have exposed crossbeams. The inner room parlour beam is chamfered with
straight cut stops, the others are chamfered with scroll stops. The hall/inner room
partition is-plastered but it is said to be an oak plank-and-muntin screen. The
roofspace was not available for inspection but plastered jointed cruck trusses show
on the first floor.
Great care should be taken here during any alterations or modernisations lest C16 or
C17 features be disturbed.

Listing NGR: SY0406097716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390294

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]