Description

SU 2182 WANBOROUGH HAM ROAD

984/25/10013 No.1
Knowle House

II

House. Probably 1st half C17; early-C18 addition; C19 and early C20 alterations. Rubblestone with dressed quoins and pebble-dash render; asbestos tile roof (formerly thatch) with ridge tiles; Welsh slate and corrugated iron to outshut; brick chimneys. Originally one-and-a-half storeys, 2 bays, with end stack; 3rd bay added on right early-C18; rear outshut added to 2 right bays probably late C19; roof raised early-C20. Added bay on right is set at angle. Entrance, between left bays, has 6-panel door with top 2 panels glazed, and early-C20 bracketed gabled hood with cusped barge-boards, spiked finial, Welsh slates and ridge tiles. Wood-framed mullion windows with horizontal glazing bars and casements, of 2 lights on left, 3 lights on right of door, 4 lights to right, and three of 3 lights above. Short chimneys to ends and between right-hand bays (at original right end). Interior: ground floor: central bay has stone-flag floor; inglenook fireplace with quoined surround, chamfered bressumer and former bread-oven; small niche in front wall; finely-moulded large-scantling spine-beam with double roll-moulding and fillet and run-out stop; board-lined window-seat. Left bay: later fireplace, large-scantling chamfered spine-beam; original joists; window seat. Right bay: fireplace with timber bressumer and bread-oven; chamfered spine-beam; C18 corner-cupboard with moulded shelf and H-hinges to raised-and-fielded panelled doors. 1st floor: original end-wall, between right bays, has small original wooden window, of 2 lights with cyma-moulded jambs and diagonally-set bar; and strap-hinged door formed of 2 wide planks. Old wide floor-boards, those in right bay re-located, including to crude loft. Partition wall between left bays has plank and muntin up to tie-beam and, above it, timber framing with wattle and daub infill. Roof, originally thatched and half-hipped at left end, survives best in central bay, having re-used smoke-blackened timbers, low collar, large-scantling principal rafters and clasped purlins, low-set collar, and pegged coupled rafters (no ridge-piece); straight wind-braces; some laths for thatch. Chamfered spine-beam with stepped cyma stop to left bay. The building functioned as a beer-house, the Old Calley Arms, in the C18 and first part of the C19 (Wilson, p. 63).
E Wilson, Wanborough in Pictures, 1987, pp 11 & 63, pl. 16. A good-quality C17 house which retains much of its original character.

Listing NGR: SU2104182674

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26607906

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings