The Knapp

THE KNAPP

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1174029
Date first listed:
22-May-1969
Statutory Address:
THE KNAPP

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Date:
2002-07-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1174029
Date first listed:
22-May-1969
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Jan-1986
Statutory Address 1:
THE KNAPP

Location

Statutory Address:
THE KNAPP

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Selworthy
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS 93142 45503

Details

SS94NW SELWORTHY CP TIVINGTON 4/127 The Knapp (formerly listed as Hooper's Cottages) - 22.5.69

GV II Farmhouse, now dwelling. C16, enlarged C17, altered and enlarged mid C19. Rendered and roughcast rubble and cob, triple ridge tile roofs, large lateral stack beside left gable end, on left return and at right gable end. Plan: original block lying north-south enlarged to east, C19 cross wing added north-east corner. North front: 2 storeys, 1:2:1 bays; gable fronted outer bays, first floor left 3-light octagonal mullioned window, centre leaded iron casement, small C20 window right, wooden casement right gable end, ground floor left 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned window, 3-light C19 Tudor arch head casement right, semicircular headed door frame, possibly reset, and plank door, 2-light Tudor arch head window right, also in re-entrant angle. Long left return of 3 bays, possibly originally longer since the walls continue south. Interior: not seen but said to contain 3 pairs of cruck trusses in west range with very large bay lengths, ovolo moulded lintel to lateral stack fireplace. (Photograph in NMR; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1980).

Listing NGR: SS9314245503

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265541
Legacy System:
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Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1980)

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Ordnance survey map of The Knapp

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