Knighton Manor

SU 02 NE BROAD CHALKE KNIGHTON (south side)

5/87 Knighton Manor 23.3.60

GV II Detached house. Late C16, altered C17 and 1920s. Rubble stone and cob on stone plinth, 2-span tiled roof with axial brick stack and gable end brick stacks, cross wing partly timber-framed and tile-hung. Two-storey and attic, 4-window north front. Tudor- arched stone doorway with planked door in gabled 1920s porch to left, to right is 4-light chamfered mullioned and transomed window, cross window and C20 steel window. Basement to right has 2-light ovolo and 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned windows. First floor has two 3-light and one 4-light chamfered mullioned casements, 2-light wooden casement to right. Three 1920s gabled attic dormers with casements. Attached to left is cross wing with rubble stone ground floor with blocked doorway and 3-light casement, tile-hung first floor has 3-light casement and attic has 3-light casement. Right return has C20 steel casement and fire escape. Rear has two C20 French windows, one inserted in former baffle entry to right of centre, two 5-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows, the right hand one of 1920s, 2- light casements. First floor has 5 ovolo-mullioned casements with hoodmoulds and four 2-light casements, eaves probably raised late C17, partly in brick. Left return of cross wing, formerly timber- framed, rebuilt in stretcher bond brick 1920s, C20 casements. Interior partly remodelled 1920s when winding stairs on south side of central stack removed and stairs in entrance hall moved to present position. Hall has fine early C17 carved wooden fireplace surround and overmantel, brought here from Wilton House in mid C20, but originally said to have been at Knighton and made for Thomas Smith, a clothier. Dining room in cross wing has open fireplace with cavetto-moulded stone lintel on stone jambs, chamfered beams with stepped stops. Drawing room has round-arched alcove with fluted pilasters and shaped shelves. First floor of wing retains some wainscot panelling to passage, some timber-framing retained including a jowled post and some straight bracing, bedroom with Regency reeded fireplace surround with paterae. Attached to left are C19 flint and brick outbuildings, with Welsh slate roofs. This house is main building on site of deserted Medieval village.

Listing NGR: SU0516625268