Description

TL 3444 TL 3443 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH OLD NORTH ROAD
(East Side)
16/65 21/65
17.10.84 Kneesworth House
School
II

Country house. 1901-1906 dated sundial. Neo-classical style, by Roland
Plumbe for Lord Knutsford. Dark red brick with lighter brick dressings and
quoins and gauged red brick. (Limestone portico and verandah). Plain tiled
flared mansard roofs. Two storeys and attics. Irregular plan, main
north-south block with symmetric projecting bays and wings. Porticoed
entrance in north elevation and in angle with service wing to north-east,
verandah across south elevation. West elevation: Symmetrical nine 'bays'
with three 'bays' on either side of main garden entrance slightly advanced,
and with further three 'bays' recessed as a wing to the north; two
symmetrically positioned stacks with blind brick arches. (Service block of
seven bays to north-east). Deep modillioned eaves cornice, rusticated brick
quoins, brick plinth. Garden entrance with double glazed doors, patterned
cast iron glazing bars to semi circular fanlight with moulded segmental hood
on carved brackets. Eleven ground floor and twelve first floor hung sash
windows with twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four panes in cambered gauged brick
arches. Three large hipped dormer windows with casements flanked by two
four-light casement dormer windows with segmental pediments over central
lights: two small dormer windows to north wing. Entrance portico, to north
semi circular in plan with flat copper covered roof, deep moulded cornice and
panelled parapet supported by lonic capitals. Verandah to south with similar
details. Interior: Pedimented eared doorcases with panelled mahogany doors;
windows with moulded cases and shutters; painted wooden chimney piece in
garden room with fluted, paired Ionic capitals; Queen Anne style staircase and
landing balustrade; deep moulded cornices with egg and dart and dentil
enrichments. The house was built on the site of the original hall sold in
1897 to Sidney Holland, later Lord Knutsford. In 1948 it was opened as a
boys' approved school which was transferred in 1967-8 to Cambridgeshire County
Council.

VCH Vol VIII p.51

Listing NGR: TL3505744026

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Kneesworth House School at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26615799

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