Knapp Cottage
KNAPP COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345876
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Knapp Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KNAPP COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345876
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Knapp Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNAPP COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- KNAPP COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lopen
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 42695 14523
Details
ST4214 LOPEN CP CHURCH STREET (North Side)
8/52 Knapp Cottage
4.2.58
GV II
Detached house. Built between 1822 and 1833. Ham stone, rendered and ashlar- lined with ashlar dresings, rear extension in local stone roughly cut and squared; Welsh slate roof between coped gables, behind parapet on south elevation; brick chimney stacks. 'L'-plan; 2 storeys, 3-bay south elevation. Plinth, cornice, plain parapet with moulded coving, rusticated quoins: 16-pane sash windows in plain openings; to lower bay 2 a fully glazed door in semi-circular arched opening with radial-glazed fanlight, protected by open stone porch with Tuscan columns and pilasters, plain entablature and flat roof. Attached to east gable is a greenhouse/conservatory; west gable has pairs of sash windows, 16-and 12-pane below and 16-and 8-pane above, then northwards an extension wing, probably slightly later in date, 3 bays with matching sash windows, and in lower bay nearest main block a doorway having 6-panelled door in deep recess, framed by architrave and pedimented hood on console brackets. Interior not seen. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4269514523
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264134
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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