Old House

SJ 32 SW; 7/42

KNOCKIN C.P., KNOCKIN, Old House

19.01.52

GV

II

Farmhouse, now house. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill and partial rebuilding; C20 planted timber frame to front gable. Slate roof, graded to rear. L-plan comprising hall range of 2½ framed bays with 2-bay cross wing projecting to left. One storey and gable-lit attics. Framing: exposed to front of hall range and to rear gable of cross-wing; square and rectangular panels, three from cill to wall-plate. Narrow 2-storey gabled porch to far right of hall range has jetties to first floor and attic and close studding to first floor. C19 bargeboards and finials to gables, including to porch. C20 casements, one on each floor to gable and one in centre to hall range. Inner C17 plank door to porch and C19 boarded door to cross-wing in angle with hall range. C19 red brick ridge stack to left of hall range has two attached shafts with dentilled band and capping. C19 red brick lean-tos to rear of hall range and to left side of cross wing, former with tall stack to one corner and latter with dentilled eaves cornice.

INTERIOR. Deep-chamfered cross-beam ceiling and chamfered joists with straight-cut stops to right ground-floor room. Exposed wall posts to centre. Large stack has partly infilled inglenook fireplace with stepped stops to chamfered wooden lintel. Front room of cross wing has boxed-in cross-beam ceiling, spine beam of which, with straight- cut stop, continues into present hall showing that wall running parallel with right return of cross-wing is a later partition. Timber frame to wall between front and back rooms of cross-wing. Staircases in back right corner of right room and to cross-wing. First floor has wide boarded oak floor boards. Cross wing has single-purlin roof in 2 bays with roughly central collar and tie-beam truss. Doorway with shaped arch cut through tie beam leads to back room. Similar roof to hall range also has shaped doorway cut through tie beam of first truss from left. Second truss from left and right end truss removed, leaving tops of wall posts exposed. Short straight wind braces to surviving trusses. Infilled segmental-headed bread oven in rear lean-to. Owner (November 1986) suggests that there was formerly a gabled cross wing to right of hall range in position corresponding to that surviving on left.

Listing NGR: SJ3331422306