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Latitude: 50.779 / 50°46'44"N
Longitude: -1.9304 / 1°55'49"W
OS Eastings: 405006
OS Northings: 97717
OS Grid: SZ050977
Mapcode National: GBR 43D.4RG
Mapcode Global: FRA 67V1.1SD
Plus Code: 9C2WQ3H9+JV
Entry Name: Granary north-west of Knighton House
Listing Date: 9 December 2015
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1431765
ID on this website: 101431765
Location: Knighton, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, BH21
County: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Merley
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Canford Magna
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Granary
A granary of mid- to late-C19 date.
A granary of mid- to late-C19 date.
MATERIALS: timber-framed construction, covered in weatherboarding, under a half-hipped, plain tiled roof which is surmounted by a weather vane.
PLAN: it is rectangular on plan.
DESCRIPTION: a building of two floors, and raised off the ground by staddle stones. There is an entrance on the west side with a plank door. The loft floor has a timber window set within an opening which has been reduced in size, possibly a former ventilation louvre, and in the gable top is a probable owl hole with a perch. The interior is closely boarded and the chamfered ceiling beam is carried on bracketed upright posts. An opening in the ceiling provides access to the upper floor, and the two-bay roof has a single principal rafter and purlins; there is some timber reinforcing.
The granary is part of a group of farm buildings at Knighton House which is situated within the hamlet of Knighton and set within a large landholding. The house was built in the C17 and documentary sources indicate that for much of the C17 and C18 it was owned by the Humfrey family and known historically as Knighton Park. By 1858 it was called Knighton Park Farm and came to be known by its current name by 1928. The first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1811 depicts a group of farm buildings to the north of the house; though some had been demolished by the mid-C19, and others have since been altered and extended. The granary is first depicted on the 1888 Ordnance Survey map.
The granary to the north-west of Knighton House, which was built in the mid- to late C19, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: as a good and little-altered example of a two-bay granary on staddle stones;
* Degree of survival: it retains a significant proportion of original fabric, including a substantially complete timber frame and roof structure.
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