Knowle House
KNOWLE HOUSE, 1, HAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322059
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle House
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE HOUSE, 1, HAM ROAD
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- Date:
- 2007-11-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/17059/26
- Rights:
- © Tim Belcher. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322059
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE HOUSE, 1, HAM ROAD
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, 1, HAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wanborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 21041 82674
Details
SU 2182 WANBOROUGH HAM ROAD
984/25/10013 No.1
Knowle House
II
House. Probably 1st half C17; early-C18 addition; C19 and early C20 alterations. Rubblestone with dressed quoins and pebble-dash render; asbestos tile roof (formerly thatch) with ridge tiles; Welsh slate and corrugated iron to outshut; brick chimneys. Originally one-and-a-half storeys, 2 bays, with end stack; 3rd bay added on right early-C18; rear outshut added to 2 right bays probably late C19; roof raised early-C20. Added bay on right is set at angle. Entrance, between left bays, has 6-panel door with top 2 panels glazed, and early-C20 bracketed gabled hood with cusped barge-boards, spiked finial, Welsh slates and ridge tiles. Wood-framed mullion windows with horizontal glazing bars and casements, of 2 lights on left, 3 lights on right of door, 4 lights to right, and three of 3 lights above. Short chimneys to ends and between right-hand bays (at original right end). Interior: ground floor: central bay has stone-flag floor; inglenook fireplace with quoined surround, chamfered bressumer and former bread-oven; small niche in front wall; finely-moulded large-scantling spine-beam with double roll-moulding and fillet and run-out stop; board-lined window-seat. Left bay: later fireplace, large-scantling chamfered spine-beam; original joists; window seat. Right bay: fireplace with timber bressumer and bread-oven; chamfered spine-beam; C18 corner-cupboard with moulded shelf and H-hinges to raised-and-fielded panelled doors. 1st floor: original end-wall, between right bays, has small original wooden window, of 2 lights with cyma-moulded jambs and diagonally-set bar; and strap-hinged door formed of 2 wide planks. Old wide floor-boards, those in right bay re-located, including to crude loft. Partition wall between left bays has plank and muntin up to tie-beam and, above it, timber framing with wattle and daub infill. Roof, originally thatched and half-hipped at left end, survives best in central bay, having re-used smoke-blackened timbers, low collar, large-scantling principal rafters and clasped purlins, low-set collar, and pegged coupled rafters (no ridge-piece); straight wind-braces; some laths for thatch. Chamfered spine-beam with stepped cyma stop to left bay. The building functioned as a beer-house, the Old Calley Arms, in the C18 and first part of the C19 (Wilson, p. 63).
E Wilson, Wanborough in Pictures, 1987, pp 11 & 63, pl. 16. A good-quality C17 house which retains much of its original character.
Listing NGR: SU2104182674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477720
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilson, E, Wanborough in Pictures, (1987), 11 and 63
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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