Knapp Cottage

Knapp Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage that was originally a farmhouse and later served as a keeper's cottage. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and was reduced in size in the mid to late 19th century, with some modernisation in the 20th century. The cottage is built of colour-washed local stone and flint rubble, featuring a stone rubble stack and chimney shaft, topped with a thatch roof.

The cottage has a two-room plan and is situated facing south down a hillslope. The smaller room, located at the left (west) end, is unheated, while the right (east) room has a gable-end stack. Around 1960, the two rooms were combined by removing the partition, and service rooms were added in a rear extension. Originally, this structure was part of a 16th-century three-room-and-through-passage plan house, but the passage and service end room were demolished in the 19th century. The hall may have been open to the roof originally, but if so, it was floored over in the early 17th century.

The cottage is two storeys high with irregular front fenestration, featuring two ground floor windows and one first floor window, all of which are 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The right end of the cottage has a projecting oven housing, and the roof is gable-ended. The doorway, located at the right end where the passage used to be, contains a late 19th to early 20th-century plank door.

Inside, although the partition between the former hall and inner room has been removed, the headbeam of an oak plank-and-muntin screen remains, along with part of the screen as wainscotting against the end wall. The former hall features a large Beerstone ashlar fireplace with an oak lintel and a chamfered surround, with the oven appearing to be a 19th-century addition. The hall's crossbeam is chamfered with step stops, and the roof is supported by two clean side-pegged jointed cruck trusses.