Swanstone Court and attached outbuildings and hop kiln

Swanstone Court and attached outbuildings and hop kiln, Knapton Green

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1349817
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1953
List Entry Name:: Swanstone Court and attached outbuildings and hop kiln
Statutory Address:: Swanstone Court and attached outbuildings and hop kiln, Knapton Green

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1349817
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1953
List Entry Name:: Swanstone Court and attached outbuildings and hop kiln
Statutory Address 1:: Swanstone Court and attached outbuildings and hop kiln, Knapton Green

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Swanstone Court and attached outbuildings and hop kiln, Knapton Green

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dilwyn
National Grid Reference:: SO 44154 53001

Details

SO 45 SW 7/31

DILWYN CP KNAPTON GREEN Swanstone Court and attached outbuildings and hop kiln

20.2.53 II* House and attached outbuildings and hop kiln. C14, extended C17, partly rebuilt early C18, extended mid-C19, with some late C20 restoration. Timber-frame with painted brick and rendered infill on a coursed rubble plinth, partially refaced in coursed rubble, with slate roof.

L-plan with solar cross-wing extending to north, hall range to east, extended to east in C17, with a C17 outbuilding to south linked by a C20 range to main building. North front is blind to left, then a two-storey block faced in rubble with two windows, a two-light casement to the left and a three-light casement to right. Ground floor has a two-light casement to left and a tripartite sash to right both under segmental heads with keystones. Entrance to left of centre has a C19 gabled canopy with trellised sides and a half-glazed door. Solar cross-wing projects to right with a boxed sash window on each floor, a 16-pane one to first floor, 20-pane to ground floor. Exposed framing of cross-wing is five square panels high to north gable, six square panels high to side walls. The gable has cusped angle struts and two cusped raking struts to the gable above. C17 range to left is three square panels high. Attached to rear of this range, a circular brick hop kiln with conical roof. The outbuilding is three square panels high with external rubble stack.

Interior not inspected, but west wall of hall retains original framed panels with large quatrefoils. The roof of the solar range is cusped throughout.

Listing NGR: SO4415453001

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 149813
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 40
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 112

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.