Knedlington House And Garden Wall And Gates

ASSELBY MAIN STREET SE 72 NW (north side)

Knedlington 8/9 Knedlington House and 16.12.66 garden wall and gates

• II House. Late C18. Colour-washed brick, stone dressings, pantile roof to house. Stuccoed brick garden wall with stone coping. Cast-iron carriage gates. Central-hallway entry with outhouse and cross wing to rear. 2 storeys, 3 bays with blind single-storey outhouse to left. Plinth. 6- fielded-panel door with radial fanlight in Doric doorcase with attached columns. 16-pane sashes beneath channelled wedge lintels with fluted keystones throughout. First-floor band and stepped eaves course. Rebuilt end stacks. Fine round-headed staircase window to cross wing. Interior: open-string staircase with column-on-vase balusters with square knops and ramped handrail. 6-fielded-panel doors to ground-floor rooms, those to main reception rooms painted by a former occupant probably in the early C20. Keyed-arched alcoves with imposts to left reception room. Wide elliptical arch to kitchen fireplace and stopped chamfers to kitchen ceiling beam. Bedroom fireplace is made up of 2 surrounds, the inner one of stone with fluted keystone and the outer one of moulded timber with paterae to angles. Plain garden wall with stone coping, ramped up to 2 pairs of carriage gates with ornamental lock rails and bottom rails. Swept down tops with spearheads. Fluted round gate piers with ball finials.

Listing NGR: SE7345128041