Knapton Old Hall

The building is a late 16th-century farmhouse, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of flint with brick dressings, and has plain tiles to the earlier east range, with pantiles elsewhere. The plan is complex. The east front is two storeys with a dormer attic. To the right is a full-height canted bay with a parapet pierced by 2- and 3-light brick cross casements of the 19th century. To the left are two 2-light brick cross casements on each floor. The gabled roof has one gabled dormer with a casement. A central octagonal bell-based ridge stack has a corbelled top. There is also an internal north stack with a diamond flue. To the north is a 19th-century cross wing with stepped gables, now with 20th-century details. The east front has a flat buttress at the south corner. The south gable is topped with kneelers, and the gable wall has five renewed 2-light brick casements. Running parallel to this east wing is a second cross wing of 17th-century origin, but now entirely 19th century. It features a 2-storey canted bay against the south gable, with 2- and 3-light brick cross casements, and a 3-light attic window above. Between the two ranges is a door below a 2-light cross casement.

Inside, there is a 17th-century staircase within a timber-framed well, with a moulded handrail, flat balusters arranged in groups of three, and square newel posts. The dining room contains cruciform bridging beams moulded into roll and hollow chamfers, with ovolo and roll-moulded joists. There is small frame panelling with an arcuated frieze, and a 4-centred fireplace below a 3-bay overmantel with an arcuated frieze. The lounge has an overmantel constructed of 16th- and 17th-century components, some of which are not in their original positions, and a re-used 16th-century tie beam. The roof of the east range is of principals and two tiers of butt purlins, the upper tier staggered; it also includes curved windbracing and collars.