The Knapp
THE KNAPP, 653-660, BLACKFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295807
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Knapp
- Statutory Address:
- THE KNAPP, 653-660, BLACKFORD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295807
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Knapp
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KNAPP, 653-660, BLACKFORD 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:
- THE KNAPP, 653-660, BLACKFORD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlton Horethorne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6639223370
Details
ST6623
8/17
CHARLTON HORETHORNE CP
BLACKFORD LANE (West side)
Nos 653 to 660 (inclusive) (The Knapp)
II
Angled corner block of 8 cottages. Early C19. Local stone coursed rubble with plain ashlar quoins; Welsh slate roof
with ornamental bargeboards to gable; brick chimney stacks. 'L'-plan, 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays to each house except
No 654, 3 bays. Casement windows with small panes, 3-light below and 2-light above, all with voussoired segmental
arched openings; single attic windows to gables of No 657 and 658; window to No 660 replaced with aluminium; mostly the
original boarded doors, but glazed doors in stone and slate porches with ornate bargeboards to Nos 653 and 654.
Listing NGR: ST6639223370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261753
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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