Knighton Manor

Knighton Manor is a detached house with origins in the late 16th century, and subsequently altered in the 17th century and the 1920s. The construction utilizes rubble stone and cob on a stone plinth, with a two-span tiled roof featuring an axial brick stack and gable end brick stacks. A cross wing is partly timber-framed and tile-hung. The north front is two-storey and attic, with a four-window arrangement. A Tudor-arched stone doorway, featuring a planked door, is set within a gabled porch added in the 1920s to the left; to the right is a four-light chamfered mullioned and transomed window, a cross window, and a 20th-century steel window. The basement to the right has a two-light ovolo window and a two-light recessed chamfered mullioned window. The first floor includes two three-light and one four-light chamfered mullioned casements, alongside a two-light wooden casement to the right. Three 1920s gabled attic dormers, each with a casement, are present.

To the left is a cross wing with a rubble stone ground floor, featuring a blocked doorway and a three-light casement. The tile-hung first floor has a three-light casement, with the attic also showcasing a three-light casement. The right return has a 20th-century steel casement and a fire escape. The rear elevation incorporates two 20th-century French windows, one inserted in a former baffle entry to the right of centre, along with two five-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows – the right-hand one dating to the 1920s – and two two-light casements. The first floor displays five ovolo-mullioned casements with hoodmoulds and four two-light casements; the eaves were probably raised in the late 17th century, partly in brick. The left return of the cross wing, originally timber-framed, was rebuilt in brick in the 1920s, now featuring 20th-century casements.

Internally, the building was partially remodelled in the 1920s - a winding staircase on the south side of the central stack was removed and a staircase was relocated to the entrance hall. The hall features a fine early 17th-century carved wooden fireplace surround and overmantel, brought from Wilton House in the mid-20th century and originally believed to have been made for Thomas Smith, a clothier, and located at Knighton. The dining room within the cross wing has an open fireplace with a cavetto-moulded stone lintel on stone jambs and chamfered beams with stepped stops. The drawing room features a round-arched alcove with fluted pilasters and shaped shelves. The first floor of the wing retains some wainscot panelling to the passage and incorporates some timber-framing – including a jowled post and straight bracing – and a bedroom with a Regency reeded fireplace surround with paterae. Attached to the left are 19th-century flint and brick outbuildings with Welsh slate roofs. The house occupies the site of a deserted medieval village.