Knoll Cottage

REDGRAVE THE STREET (NORTH EAST TM 0477 SIDE) 5/95 Knoll Cottage (formerly 29.7.55 listed as Knole Cottage) GV II

House. c.1570, altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof. 4 bay 3 cell cross entry plan, altered to lobby entrance. 2 storeys. Ground floor: original entrance was to left of centre, now blocked by a 2-light leaded casement with a fanlight in original 4-centred arched doorhead. Lobby entrance has an C18 6 raised fielded panelled door in a C20 glazed porch, transomed 3-light leaded casements with metal framed opening lights, hoodboards. First floor similar 1 and 2-light casements, over original entrance a Norwich Insurance marker. Ridge stack to right of centre between hall and parlour, rebuilt cap. Roof hipped to left or service end with a catslide over a 1 storey C19 brick lean-to with a 3-light glazing bar casement. Right gable end 2-light casements, leaded on ground floor, exposed plates and purlins. To rear a rebuilt stack at service end with a pantiled brick oven outshut, a boarded cross entry door, a short C20 projection to rear right. Interior: stop chamfered binding beams, joists, mid-rails and fireplace bressumer, traces of 3 doorways to service bay which had stairs to rear. First floor close studding, cranked and reverse cranked braces in walling, a 5-light diamond mullioned window to rear, arched braces from jowled posts to chamfered cambered tie beams; clasped purlin roof with cranked windbraces.

Listing NGR: TM0449177970