Knowle Including Garden Boundary Wall and Mounting Block to South East

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SX 76 NE BROADHEMPSTON 1/38 Knowle including garden - boundary wall and mounting block to South East GV II Farmhouse. C18, remodelled internally circa 1830. Rubble walls, slate hung to first floor at left-hand side. Rendered brick stacks, 1 lateral at front and 1 axial to the right. Gable end stack to wing at rear. Slate roof hipped to left and right ends. Unusual L-shaped plan form which is transitional from traditional 3-room and through passage to double depth plan. To the right are 2 rooms in a row, with probably integral dairy behind left-hand one; to their left is a stairhall and beyond it to the left the house was originally double depth. These 2 rooms were the principal rooms facing the garden to the left and all the rooms to the right of the entrance hall appear to have been for service purposes. In circa 1830 the house was remodelled internally with new fittings but the only change made to the plan was to remove the dividing wall between the 2 principal rooms creating 1 large room. 2 storeys with cellar. Asymmetrical 3-window front of C18 wooden transomed 3 and 4- light windows with leaded panes and mainly old glass. Stone segmental arches. Door to left of centre is 6 panels circa early C19 with contemporary porch. Canopy on reeded columns with reeded pilaster either side of door. Cellar window to left of door. Front of wing at left hand end remodelled circa 1830 with regular 3-window facade of 16-pane sashes on first floor, 24 panes on ground floor. At the right- hand gable end a small 2-storey outbuilding is attached. At rear, stairwell and dairy are flush with each other; arched stair window. Interior : features mainly date from C19 remodelling. Principal room has simple cornice with a decorative bracket probably at the position the partition wall was removed. Marble Victorian fireplace. Entry hall and first floor landing have reeded architraves to doorways opening out of them. Similar arch half way along hall. The staircase has turned newels and stick balusters. The right-hand room was probably originally the kitchen and has an open fireplace with cambered wooden lintel supported on a corbel stone at either end. To include rubble garden boundary wall at front of house with stone piers to gateway which have rounded caps. Mounting block to right of gateway. This house is interesting in its transitional plan form which appears to have allowed more space for the service quarters than for the principal living accommodation. It is also interesting that the unassuming C18 entrance facade to was retained when the garden front and interior were remodelled in the C19.

Listing NGR: SX7989567508

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