The Knoll

The Knoll is a house that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century. It was rebuilt around 1620 and has 19th-century additions and alterations, with a modern roof. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a 19th-century painted brick ground floor, an underbuilt jetty to the south, and constructed with Bourn great bricks. The roof is covered with modern plain tiles, and there is a 17th-century ridge stack with three diagonal shafts on the right side.

The house has two storeys with attics and follows a three-unit lobby entry plan. The main entrance features an open gabled 19th-century porch and a boarded door with fillets. There are three ground floor windows and four first floor windows of various sizes, all with glazing bars, including two horizontal sliding sash windows. Inside, the walls reveal exposed frames that indicate two different building periods. At the rear, there is a kitchen wing that includes a baking oven from the 19th century, and a rear stack to the southwest is dated 1831 on a stone plaque.