Knowle House
KNOWLE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315167
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle House
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315167
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE HOUSE, MAIN 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:
- KNOWLE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Knowle
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46881 87250
Details
KIRBY KNOWLE MAIN STREET SE 48 NE (SOUTH SIDE) 4/26 KNOWLE HOUSE GV II Rectory, now house with estate office. Late C18 with earlier origins and early-mid C19 and C20 additions. Coursed squared stone, Welsh slate roof. 2 and 3 storeys, 5-bay main range with 2-storey, 1 x 2-bay C19 range added to west end, and single-storey, 2-bay C20 range (not of special interest) added to east end. Garden front: main range: the 3 right-hand bays are 3-storeyed, the 2 left-hand bays 2-storeyed and projecting under a catslide roof so that facade is level with that of the C19 addition. On the ground floor, each of the right-hand bays has a French window and the left-hand bays a tall 12-pane sash. Upper floors have 16-pane sashes. Openings have keyed lintels except for the top-floor windows which are set under eaves; the windows have projecting cills. Shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to right gable. End stacks, the top of the left one rebuilt in white brick. The added block on the left has quoins, a 16-pane sash with plain stone lintel and projecting cill to each floor, and a hipped roof. Rear: main range. The masonry of the left bay and of the 1st floor of the rest is herringbone-tooled, suggesting earlier origins. The left bay projects and has a 16-pane sash on each floor. The next bay has a gabled porch with small 2-light window, shaped kneelers, coping, and door in right return; to its right is a small, square, chamfered window, low down, with a blocked window above. To right again a 16-pane sash and a blocked window, the former, along with two 12-pane sashes on the 1st floor, having a flat arch and projecting cill. Left return, C19 addition: two tall, unequally-hung 15-pane sashes to ground floor and 12-pane sashes above all with plain lintels and projecting cills; end of tie-rods at lst-floor level.
Listing NGR: SE4688187250
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332560
- 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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