Knowle House Including Stables To North West

Knowle House is a house with stables, dating from around 1850 to 1860. The building is constructed of plastered walls, with either brick or stone rubble, slate roof, and chimneys that have original brick shafts. The house is arranged in a T-shape. The main block, facing north-east, contains two rooms with an entrance hall and staircase between them. Three rear lateral stacks are present, the central one serving the first floor. A rear block projects at right angles from the middle of the main block, slightly lower and two rooms deep, with an end stack. A lower service block extends beyond this.

The front elevation is symmetrical, with three windows. A central doorway is accessed by a flight of stone steps, leading to identical inner and outer part-glazed and panelled double doors with side lights and a fanlight featuring a radial pattern of glazing bars. A stucco porch has Tuscan pilasters, plain square outer columns, and a band around the entablature. Flanking the doorway are canted bay windows with a moulded entablature supported by shaped brackets. First-floor windows have eared stucco architraves; all windows are sashes without glazing bars. Deep eaves are supported by plain brackets, and the roof is hipped at each end. The chimney shafts have shaped brick decoration around the coping and retain original chimney pots. The left end has a single-window frontage mirroring the main front, with 16 and 12-pane sashes. On the other side of the rear block, overlooking a courtyard, are two first-floor 16-pane sashes, a ground-floor casement with glazing bars, and a four-panel service door.

Inside, much original carpentry detail remains, including an open string staircase with shaped brackets, bulbous newel posts, slender turned balusters, a mahogany handrail, and a curtail step. To the right (north-west), the house is accompanied by stables and a coach house, including a high stone wall with a large archway. This archway has a three-centred arch with plain imposts, a moulded entablature, and is surmounted by a plaster eagle flanked by balls.