Knapp Farmhouse
KNAPP FARMHOUSE, BENVILLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210862
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Knapp Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KNAPP FARMHOUSE, BENVILLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210862
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Knapp Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNAPP FARMHOUSE, BENVILLE 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:
- KNAPP FARMHOUSE, BENVILLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54359 03542
Details
CORSCOMBE BENVILLE LANE ST 50 SW 5/193 Knapp Farmhouse, formerly listed as Benville Knap - II
Farmhouse. Late C17. Rubble-stone walls with stone quoins. Continuous string over ground floor windows. Roman-tile roof with gable-ends. One rendered brick stack. 2 storeys. 3- and 4-light stone mullions with ovolos. Iron casements with lead lights, and C20 metal casements. No front door. C20 porch at rear. Interiors, deep-chamfered ceiling-beam with filleted stops, slightly ovolo. Attached cottage and stable, at right hand. Rubble-stone walls, rendered. Patent tile roof. 2 storeys. 2 windows with C20 metal casements. Door at right hand with segmental brick arch over. Source: RCHM Dorset I, pl07 (17).
Listing NGR: ST5435903542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395440
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 107
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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