Description

SO 75 NW KNIGHTWICK CP -

1/35 Manor House 12/11/51 -

- II*

Farmhouse. Early C18. Brick with hipped, tiled roof. 2 storeys and platt band; 7 bays, 2:3:2, with 4 brick pilasters, one at each end and at main bay divisions; windows are 18-pane sashes with gauged flat heads except for 2 end bays to right where upper left window is blocked and 2 ground floor windows which have a wooden mullion and 2 transomes; there is a small wooden sign with DAIRY painted on it above the right ground floor window; central half-glazed, panelled double doors recessed within moulded architrave and canopy with simple moulded detail. Brick stacks to ridge above pilasters to central 3 bays. Interior Hall fireplace has late C17 carved oak panelled chimney-piece; Parlour has Jacobean panelling with fluted frieze with early C18 aedicule in south wall with painting of 4 nude children at back of recess, plaster ceiling of four deep panels with moulded edges, and late C17 carved oak chimneypiece; part of early C18 dog-legged stair with a moulded handrail and turned balusters survives above first floor level. The farmhouse is built upon the sandstone cellars of a C17 or earlier building; three 2- light mullioned cellar windows survive in the south elevation.

Listing NGR: SO7216855061

External Links

• Wikidata Q17547793

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5