Knockin Hall With Flanking Walls And Attached Outbuildings

Knockin Hall is a small country house dating from around 1790, with extensions and alterations made in the mid-19th century and late 20th century. The house is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, featuring a double-span slate roof with carved stone kneelers, coped verges, and parapet and valley stacks.

The main block is of three bays, with a single-bay, three-storey range attached to the right. Flanking walls extend to the front, along with attached outbuildings. The main façade has a moulded stone eaves cornice and painted stone floor bands. It features three windows per floor, with mostly glazing bar sashes and painted stone wedge lintels. However, the first-floor central and right-hand windows are late 20th-century top-hung casements designed to resemble tripartite sashes. A 20th-century French window to the left leads to the top of a canted bay, one of two flanking the central entrance. The entrance is emphasized by a horned glazing bar sash on each face, set behind a moulded stone parapet, believed to date from around 1846. A late 19th-century half-glazed door, flanked by windows, is sheltered by a late 20th-century six-columned porch with a moulded entablature mirroring the canted bays. A range attached to the right has wide 20th-century casements with segmental stone lintels, and an integral end stack with dentilled capping. A late 18th-century pointed window with Gothic Y-tracery is located on the second floor of the left gable end. The rear elevation features a mix of late 18th and 19th-century windows.

Flanking walls to the front are contemporary with the house, but their tops have been rebuilt, and a balustrade added in the late 20th century. The right wall retains its original form beyond a late 20th-century semi-circular projection of no special interest, and is constructed of red brick with ramped stone coping, terminating in a single-storey corner building with a pyramidal slate roof and dentilled eaves cornice. A red-brick outbuilding stands behind the left wall, in the angle with the house, featuring a pyramidal slate roof, dentilled eaves cornice, and two 16-paned glazing bar sashes with horns to the front.

The interior, partially inspected in November 1986, includes a top-lit, open-well staircase in the central hall, featuring turned balusters (three to each tread) on an open string with carved brackets, and a wreathed moulded handrail. Late 20th-century columns and a plaster cornice are also present. Original six-panel doors are found to the left and right, and a chamfered cross beam with ogee stops is likely reused from an earlier house.