The Knappings
THE KNAPPINGS, 243, CIRENCESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386592
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Knappings
- Statutory Address:
- THE KNAPPINGS, 243, CIRENCESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386592
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Knappings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KNAPPINGS, 243, CIRENCESTER ROAD
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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 KNAPPINGS, 243, CIRENCESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlton Kings
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 96443 19777
Details
CHARLTON KINGS
SO91NE CIRENCESTER ROAD 630-1/4/45 (East side) 14/12/83 No.243 The Knappings
II
House. Probably C15 cruck-framed hall house with late C16 alterations, north bay added C18 and house encased in brick; C20 extensions to left and centre. Timber-frame with fictive timbering on brick to extensions, renewed tile roof and brick stack. PLAN: originally a 2-bay open hall altered in C16 with rebuilding at south end to give a large heated parlour; hall floored to give chambers. C18 bay gave back kitchen or dairy with an upper room (probably a cheese room). EXTERIOR: long 2-storey elevation with irregular fenestration. One 4-light window on first floor to left of centre and 2 to right, one late C20 the other with oak mullions and 4 lights, a similar window below, iron casements with leaded lights probably C18. C20 buttress. Door to left of buttress. South gable has more regular treatment with 2-light attic window and a 5-light oriel bay on ground floor with oak ovolo-section mullions. More oak mullioned windows to rear. INTERIOR: reported to include winder stair in north-west corner of parlour. Cruck truss with saddle apex to original north end wall; studding to this wall. Further crucks with ogee or double curve and an open cruck truss. Foot of truss exposed to east wall in hall. Exposed small square panels of timber-framing to parlour east wall. Chamfered beams with shoulder-step stops to parlour and parlour chamber, that to parlour chamber set axially. Hall and parlour fireplaces are similar with chamfered stop jambs and cambered wooden lintel. Roof has 3 levels of purlins visible, the middle one original with smoke blackening. (Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin: 1990-: 7-19).
Listing NGR: SO9644319777
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473988
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin in Charlton Kings Local History Society, (1990), 7-19
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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