Description

TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD QUEEN STREET

6/349 Knell Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Circa early/mid C17 origins, extended and altered in the circa
1880s. Early block framed construction, clad in weatherboarding. 186Qs
addition brick to the ground floor, the first floor tile-hung with bands of
scalloped tiles; peg-tile roofs; brick stacks.

Plan: The house faces, approximately east. The rear (west) block is a C17 3
room lobby entrance plan, the 2 north rooms, parlour and hall, heated from
back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack with a stair rising from the parlour
against the rear wall. The right hand (south) room is unheated and was
formerly divided into 2, probably buttery and pantry. In the circa 1860s a
new front block was added with principal rooms on either side of a central
entrance facing the stair. The old house was re-used as a service wing. The
roof of the rear block was replaced in the late C20 following a fire.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front to the 1860s block with gables
to the front to left and right with bargeboards, dentil verges frieze to the
gables, which have finials and pendants. Gabled roof; end stacks with
rendered shafts. Gabled open porch on timber posts in the centre, the gable
verges with a dentil cornice and finial and pendant. C19 front door, the
upper panels glazed. Canted bay windows to left and right with hipped roofs
are glazed with plate glass horned sashes, 4-pane in the centre, 2-pane in the
outer lights. 4-pane sash above the porch; left and right tripartite sashes,
4-pane in the centre, 2-pane in the outer lights. The rear block, roofed on
the same axis, has a half-hipped roof. The axial stack has staggered triple
shafts with a corbelled brick cornice.

Interior: The C19 block is very complete with contemporary joinery and a
stair with turned balusters. The rear block preserves C17 carpentry of a
fairly plain character with axial beams and exposed joists. Open fireplae in
the left hand (north) room with a chamfered lintel and brick jambs. Exposed
ceiling beams to the first floor rooms where a number of C17 doors survive.

Roof: The roof of the rear block is entirely late C20.

A 2-phase house. The C19 addition is very complete.

Listing NGR: TQ6815744312

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545978

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  For the Record
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)