Knaves Knoll
KNAVES KNOLL, DANCERS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061368
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Knaves Knoll
- Statutory Address:
- KNAVES KNOLL, DANCERS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061368
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Knaves Knoll
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNAVES KNOLL, DANCERS HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KNAVES KNOLL, DANCERS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3602819277
Details
CHARLBURY
1681/0/10003 DANCERS HILL 10-JUL-02 Knaves Knoll
GV II
House. Mid-late C17. Coursed ashlar rubble; graded Stonesfield slate and machine tiled roofs. PLAN: single-celled. EXTERIOR: north front is 2 storey and dormer attic; 2-window range. Single-storey kitchen extension extends to the north. 2 top-hung casements to east side, the larger under a raking roof. One C18 iron 2-light casement to the west wall. Main house wall with one 1/1 horned sash to first floor, and a 2-light leaded timber casement. Gabled dormer fitted with a 2-light casement. Internal gable-end stack to the east. East gable with off-centre coursed rubble porch under a raking roof, and with 2 timber balusters in support. One 1/1 horned sash in gable head, lighting staircase. South front with a glazed French door to right of a 2-light casement. One 2/2 unhorned first-floor sash located centrally. INTERIOR: ground-floor room with a chamfered and tongue-stopped bridging beam. Plain joists. Open stone fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. Winder staircase to north of stack rises in 2 sections to the attic. North wall with an 8-panelled small-framed door leading to kitchen extension. First floor with one central spine beam marking division of 2 rooms. Early C20 cast-iron fire insert in southern room. Roof structure hidden behind lath and plaster, but with C19 reinforcing half-rafters, collars and purlins inside them. Unusually intact single-celled, mid-late C18 house with surviving plan form and winder staircase.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489602
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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