The Knoll

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SD46SE
1685-1/1/315

LANCASTER
WESTBOURNE ROAD (South side)
The Knoll

II

House, now resource centre for people with learning disabilities. 1879, restored c1990. Designed by Hubert Austin for himself. Red brick, with some tile-hanging and half-timbering. Plain tile roof.

Two storeys plus attic. The garden front has a one-bay cross-wing at the left, with ground-floor brickwork rebuilt in the late C20. On the ground and first floors there are paired glazing bar sashes, the one on the first floor under a segmental head. The attic window has a similar head, but has timber mullions and transoms and is set above a string course of moulded brickwork, with the moulding continued around the verges to form a pediment.

The main part of the facade has two bay windows which have timber window frames and tilehanging between storeys. The left-hand bay window is of three storeys and has straight sides and timber mullioned and transomed windows with leaded glazing. The central part of the ground-floor window is treated as an Ipswich window with a semicircular arch rising from the transom. The projecting gable has bargeboards. Above, on the main roof ridge, is a viewing platform set diagonally with a timber balustrade. The right-hand bay window is canted and of two storeys which have glazing bar sashes. The roof is hipped, with a deep moulded coving at the eaves and with a small segmental-headed attic dormer.

To the left of the left-hand bay window is a narrow bay which has a tall narrow window lighting the back stair at first and second floor level. On the ground floor is a doorway with segmental head, which has a small window to its left. There are chimneys to the left of the viewing platform and projecting from the right-hand gable.

The entrance front has two gabled projections. The cross-wing at the right which includes a 1st floor oriel window with curved sides, and above a four-light casement. That to the left is a three-storey porch which has a jettied half-timbered third storey, a timber bellcote on the ridge, and a chimney on the right-hand return wall. The doorway has a moulded brick architrave and cornice. Between these wings is a large stair window. Set back to the left the main part of the building has a dated plaque, reading AHF 1879, between single cross casements, with a large canted dormer window above and a single sash below to the left.

INTERIOR: the entrance hall is divided by an oak screen partly formed by the balustrade of the lowest flight of the main stair. The stair newels are carried upwards as turned posts which support an oak cornice with pulvinated frieze. Between the posts the architrave of the entablature is arched upwards in a semicircle, a motif which is repeated across the remainder of the hall, with pendant bosses instead of posts. The stair itself has splat balusters. The house contains 9 fireplaces with Delftware tiles. The right-hand ground-floor room (as viewed from the garden front) has a plasterwork frieze. In the central room there is an oak overmantel in a C17 style incorporating some C17 wood.

Listing NGR: SD4678961386

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