Knowlehill, House, Tea Room and Other Buildings, Including Underground Caves
KNOWLEHILL, HOUSE, TEA ROOM AND OTHER BUILDINGS, INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CAVES, INGLEBY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096436
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Knowlehill, House, Tea Room and Other Buildings, Including Underground Caves
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLEHILL, HOUSE, TEA ROOM AND OTHER BUILDINGS, INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CAVES, INGLEBY LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096436
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Knowlehill, House, Tea Room and Other Buildings, Including Underground Caves
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLEHILL, HOUSE, TEA ROOM AND OTHER BUILDINGS, INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CAVES, INGLEBY LANE
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:
- KNOWLEHILL, HOUSE, TEA ROOM AND OTHER BUILDINGS, INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CAVES, INGLEBY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ticknall
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3516925669
Details
SK 32 NE
4/101
19-1-67
PARISH OF TICKNALL
OFF INGLEBY LANE
(East Side)
Knowlehill, House, Tea Room and other buildings, including underground caves
II
House, attached walls and tea room, now semi-derelict. C17,
late C18 and early C19. Red brick and timber framing, plain
tile roof with brick gable stacks. One and two storeys. House
to west with walls and ancillary buildings including a tea room,
enclosing a courtyard to the east. House is built against the
hillside. Single storey to west has central C19 doorway with
panelled door and bracketed hood. Flanked on each side by
2-light casement windows. Two storey east elevation has exposed
boxed framing in large irregular vertical panels, with brick
infill. The ground floor has from left to right, a doorway, two
windows, a doorway and a window, all under timber lintels. Four
2-light casements above. The east side of the courtyard has a
range of derelict buildings. Doorway with wedge brick lintel.
The range to the left has mostly collapsed. To the right is a
late C18 tea room, which has a semi-circular projection to south
with ogee doorway, flanked by ogee windows. West elevation has
further ogee windows. The lower parts of the walls are of large
sandstone blocks. Four semi-circular headed windows. The
interior of the tea room has an ogee door and doorway, and the
remains of a fluted cornice. In the undercroft is a
four-centred arched fireplace. To the north east are various
fragments of what appears to have been a late C18 pleasure
garden. A terrace with concave curved ashlar wall with
half-domed statue niches and below, a passage cut into the rock,
to two circular chambers lined with small niches. Knowle Hill
is the site of the old home of the Burdett family before their
move to Foremark. The site appears to have been made in the
late C18 into a pleasure garden, with terracing down the
dramatically precipitous side of the valley. The underground
caves are somewhat reminiscent of the caves of West Wycombe
Park, Buckinghamshire.
Listing NGR: SK3516925669
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82908
- 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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