Knapp House
KNAPP HOUSE, 1, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294890
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Knapp House
- Statutory Address:
- KNAPP HOUSE, 1, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294890
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Knapp House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNAPP HOUSE, 1, SOUTH STREET
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, 1, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Petherton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43450 16816
Details
SOUTH PETHERTON CP SOUTH STREET (East side) ST4316 7/164 No 1 (Knapp House) 19.4.61
GV II
Detached house. C17 origins, extensively altered in earlier C19. Ham stone ashlar; hipped Welsh slate roof behind high parapet; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 6 bays, of which bays 1 and 2 are set lower and probably of a separate build. Plinth, cornice, plain parapet: sash windows in plain openings; 16-pane upper bays 1 and 2, 20-pane upper bays 3, 4 and 5; C20 small-pane casements lower bays 1 and 2, then large 20-pane sashes bays 3 and 4; bay 6 is set higher and has a bow front, with matching windows below but plain sashes above, in pairs of windows set on the curve: to lower bay 5 an elliptical arch with pair of part-glazed doors, protected by an open stone porch having early pattern Doric columns and pilasters, paired, with plain entablature and flat roof. Matching 2-bay south front, the upper windows blind. Interior not seen. The house known as Naphouse by 1778. In 1934 became a Roman Catholic Mass Centre, being relaced by a new church in 1961; it then became St Elizabeth's House for Elderly Ladies. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4345016816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264249
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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