Knaves Knoll

Knaves Knoll is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed ashlar rubble and features roofs made of graded Stonesfield slate and machine tiles. The building has a single-celled plan.

The north front is two stories high with a dormer attic and has a two-window range. There is a single-storey kitchen extension that extends to the north. On the east side, there are two top-hung casements, with the larger one situated under a raking roof. The west wall has a late 18th-century iron two-light casement. The main house wall features a first-floor 1/1 horned sash window and a two-light leaded timber casement. A gabled dormer is fitted with a two-light casement. An internal gable-end stack is located on the east side. The east gable has an off-centre coursed rubble porch under a raking roof, supported by two timber balusters. There is a 1/1 horned sash window in the gable head that lights the staircase.

On the south front, there is a glazed French door to the right of a two-light casement, and a centrally located first-floor 2/2 unhorned sash window.

Inside, the ground-floor room features a chamfered and tongue-stopped bridging beam, with plain joists and an open stone fireplace that has a chamfered bressumer. A winder staircase, located to the north of the stack, rises in two sections to the attic. The north wall has an eight-panelled small-framed door leading to the kitchen extension. The first floor has a central spine beam that divides two rooms, and the southern room contains an early 20th-century cast-iron fire insert. The roof structure is hidden behind lath and plaster but includes 19th-century reinforcing half-rafters, collars, and purlins. Knaves Knoll is an unusually intact single-celled house from the mid to late 17th century, preserving its original plan form and winder staircase.