The Knoll

The Knoll is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with possible earlier core elements. It was modernised in the 19th century and again around 1980. The main block has a five-room plan facing south, with smaller, unheated rooms at the outer edges. The original kitchen is located to the left of centre, served by an external axial stack. The centre and right-of-centre rooms share an axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. An entrance lobby and a rear staircase lie between the kitchen and centre rooms. A low service block, initially projecting at a right angle to the west, has been converted to domestic use and was likely originally stables.

The main block is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front featuring circa 1980 PVC casements with diamond patterns of leaded glass. First-floor windows have thatch eyebrows above. A fifth ground-floor window has been adapted into a doorway with a circa 1980 door matching the windows. A late 19th to early 20th century plank door is set within an unusual porch with a monopitch thatched roof, and there is a sunken rectangular recess above the doorway. The roof is hipped at both ends. The stable wing incorporates two circa 1980 casements, two late 19th to early 20th century plank doors, and a single late 19th century casement with glazing bars and a thatch eyebrow. This wing is gable-ended. The rear of the main block has only two small, single-light windows.

The interior reveals little original carpentry detail. The kitchen features a soffit-chamfered crossbeam without stops, while the room to the right has a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops; both are likely from the late 17th to early 18th century. A round-headed alcove of the same date is present in the rear wall of the central room. All fireplaces are blocked. The joinery is consistently 19th century, including panelled shutters for some windows. The roofs of both blocks are supported by uncollared trusses of slender construction and staggered purlins. Although earlier elements are not visible, the long layout of the main block suggests it may be an adaptation of an earlier house.