Knowle Manor Farmhouse
KNOWLE MANOR FARMHOUSE, KNOWLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307409
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE MANOR FARMHOUSE, KNOWLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307409
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE MANOR FARMHOUSE, KNOWLE 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:
- KNOWLE MANOR FARMHOUSE, KNOWLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knowle St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3389211160
Details
KNOWLE ST GILES CP KNOWLE LANE (North-west side)
ST31SE
1/65
Knowle Manor Farmhouse
4.2.58
- II
Farmhouse. Probably C18. on site of medieval manor, but much modified in C19 and C20. Local stone rubble, some red
brick in Flemish bond and some squared flintwork with Ham stone ashlar dressings; plain clay tile roof over stone slate
base courses. hipped to south-west, with stepped coped gable to north- east with ball finial; brick chimney stacks. Two
storeys with attic, 4 bays. Bay 1 and 2 in brick; with 3-light small-pane casements to all but lower bay 2, which has a
5-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window with 4-centre-arched liqhts, set under square label. Bay 3 is a gabled
projection in squared flintwork, with ball finial to gable, having plinth and cill courses, and a 2-storey 1+5+1 light
angled bay window, detailed to match lower bay 2, in wave-mould: recesses, with flat roof over: bay 4 has a C20 copy of
the lover bay 2 window, and a 4-light casement above is a brick surround: between bays 1/2 a boarded door under a
concrete lintel and left of bay 4, in the angle, another boarded door set into a stone and tiled lean-to porch. A C20
timber and glass conservatory added to south-west gable. Top of bay 3 gable and the north-east gable rebuilt in brick.
A Cl8 extension to rear, set lower. Interior not seen, but reported to be much altered. Earlier known as Illeigh Farm,
it was in ancient manor whose house was first recorded in 1303. (VCH Somerset, Vol IV 1978, pl59).
Listing NGR: ST3389211160
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262192
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 159
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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