KNELLS HOUSE

KNELLS HOUSE, THE KNELLS, CA6 4JG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1087732
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: KNELLS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: KNELLS HOUSE, THE KNELLS, CA6 4JG

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Date:: 2003-07-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1087732
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: KNELLS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: KNELLS HOUSE, THE KNELLS, CA6 4JG

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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Location

Statutory Address:: KNELLS HOUSE, THE KNELLS, CA6 4JG

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

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stanwix Rural
National Grid Reference:: NY 41387 60572

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/02/17

NW 46 SW, 2/71

STANWIX RURAL, HOUGHTON, Knells House

(Formerly listed as: The Knells (Flats Nos 1 to 7)

II

House. Date given as 1824 for John Dixon. Sandstone ashlar walls, lead hipped slate roof. two storeys, three bays entrance facade, five bays to south-east facade. Stepped tetrastyle entrance portico with plain Ionic columns, moulded entablature and cornice: plain entrance surround with moulded projecting cornice on scrolled console brackets. Hollow-chamfered tripartite window surrounds to ground floor with cornice on scrolled console brackets: single windows to upper floor with plain surrounds and principal window with cornice on scrolled console brackets. Rusticated plinth courses, plain string course, dentilled and moulded cornice with parapet. South-east facade has double-bay pediments flanking recessed entrance bay: squared pilaster surrounds to entrance supporting moulded cornice. Ashlar chimney stacks. Sold by the Dixon family in 1872 and was divided into seven flats when surveyed. Colvin's, Dictionary of British Architects, 1978, records work done by John Dobson for John Dixon at The Knells in 1845.

Listing NGR: NY4138760572

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Legacy System number:: 77652
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)

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