The Knapp
THE KNAPP, 1, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324240
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Knapp
- Statutory Address:
- THE KNAPP, 1, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324240
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Knapp
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KNAPP, 1, NEW 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:
- THE KNAPP, 1, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portesham
- National Grid Reference:
- SY6019185753
Details
SY 6085 PORTESHAM NEW ROAD, EAST SIDE
11/195 No 1 The Knapp
26.1.56
GV II
Detached Cottage, formerly 3. C17, L-Plan, with C18 extension at north end.
Dressed and rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof, with stone gable-coping at east
gable. Brick stacks at south and east gables. 1½ storeys. 2 windows and
2 windows in south range, east elevation, and east range south elevation. Stone
mullion windows survive on latter range, 3-light with separate label, and 2-light
with metal casements on gable end. C17 doorway in the angle of the 2 ranges with
a depressed-arch head. C20 plank-and-muntin door. The north wing has rubble-stone
walls, and an asbestos slate roof, with a C20 stone stack at the gable end.
(RCHM Dorset II, p.244 (11)).
Listing NGR: SY6019185753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105315
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 244
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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