Knapp House With Its North and East Boundary Walls and Entrance Gate With Piers
KNAPP HOUSE WITH ITS NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS AND ENTRANCE GATE WITH PIERS, 225, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173383
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Knapp House With Its North and East Boundary Walls and Entrance Gate With Piers
- Statutory Address:
- KNAPP HOUSE WITH ITS NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS AND ENTRANCE GATE WITH PIERS, 225, PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173383
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Knapp House With Its North and East Boundary Walls and Entrance Gate With Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNAPP HOUSE WITH ITS NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS AND ENTRANCE GATE WITH PIERS, 225, PRESTON ROAD
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:
- KNAPP HOUSE WITH ITS NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS AND ENTRANCE GATE WITH PIERS, 225, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5361416153
Details
ST51NW
1/62
YEOVIL CP
PRESTON ROAD (South side)
No 225 (Knapp House) with its North and East Boundary walls and entrance gate with piers
19.3.51
GV II
House, earlier than 1675. The front and sides of local Stone cut and squared,
the rear c1950 brick wall replacing cob; thatched roof, brick chimney stacks.
Substantial Somerset cross passage house; 2 storeys, but kitchen seems to have
been single storey. Main entrance elevation dominated by late C19 2-storey
angled by window with sashes. Front door to left of this has 6 reeded panels; on
heavy frame set on plain reveals, no porch; to left of this stone mullioned
kitchen window with hollow chamfers, probably early C18: other ground floor
windows to right-hand of bay late C18 12-pane sashes, these separated by stone
string course from 1st floor unmoulded mullioned window surrounds with small
leaded panes: another matching window to left hand of bay. Interior not
inspected, but layout said to be main room fireplace back onto passage, with
another room and fireplace beyond this; the kitchen across the passage. Front
stone boundary wall approximately 1.5 metres high to forth and East boundaries
with two stone gate piers with moulded tops and ball finials. (Hall, Sir R. de
Z.: S.A.N.H.S. Proceedings Vol. 105).
Listing NGR: ST5361416153
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261400
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 105, ()
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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