20, The Knapp is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. House.

20, The Knapp

WRENN ID
calm-nave-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
House
Address
20, The Knapp, Shaftesbury
OS grid reference
ST 858 230
Coordinates
51.00691, -2.20336
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

20 The Knapp is a building from 1615 located on the south side of Enmore Green. It is two storeys high and has two windows. The roof is covered with slate, and the front is made of stone rubble. The windows are three panes wide and set in reveals, featuring a keystone effect. The entrance has a wooden boarded door with a panel cut away, a small window to the left, and modern doors further to the left.

The buildings numbered 6 to 20 (even) form a group with No 2 and a range of outbuildings adjoining No 2 to the southwest, along Breach Lane.

Local climate

20, The Knapp receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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