Knoddy

House. Dating from the 16th century with a 17th-century parlour wing and 20th-century alterations and minor additions. The building is constructed of local limestone rubble with a Delabole slate roof. A gable end to the right carries a large stone rubble stack with tapered cap, while the left end is hipped. A large projecting front lateral stack with set-offs and tapered cap is visible, and there is a gable-ended rear wing also with a gable end stack with tapered cap. A stair tower occupies the angle between ranges, with a slate-hung gable. Early crested ridge tiles run throughout.

The south front range represents the original house, which appears to have been open to the roof based on evidence of smoke-blackened roof timbers that have been reused in the 17th-century roof structure. Around the early 17th century, the house underwent heavy remodelling and extension. The front range shows a 2-room plan: a smaller parlour to the left heated from the front lateral stack, and a larger kitchen to the right with a gable end stack. A solid wall partition separates the rooms with no passage between them, suggesting direct entry to the right-hand room may have existed originally. A 20th-century partition in the right-hand room now creates a wide central stair hall. A parlour wing was added to the rear of the kitchen, creating an overall L-shaped plan. Plasterwork in the parlour wing is dated 1634, which probably dates the wing's construction, though the remodelling of the main range may be earlier in the 17th century.

The exterior shows two storeys with an asymmetrical four-window south front. The windows are 18th, 19th, and 20th-century 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars. The first floor to the right of centre retains a late 17th-century 2-light casement with leaded panes, chamfered on the inside. The projecting front lateral chimney has a tall shaft to the left of centre and a slated pentice canopy over the doorway and windows to the right, where straight joints in masonry appear under the cills. The present doorway has a chamfered timber lintel and 20th-century moulded plank door. A raking masonry buttress supports the rear wall of the main range. The early 17th-century rear wing is two storeys with attic accommodation and a 17th-century gabled stair tower in the angle. On the inner side a large 20th-century French window is present, while the outer side has a later outshut and a 20th-century outshut at the gable end of the main range.

Interior details include: the left-hand parlour has a chamfered cross beam with hollow step stops and joists with bead mouldings, and a front lateral fireplace with chamfered timber lintel with hollow step stops. The right-hand room contains a chamfered cross beam and half-beam with step stops, unchamfered joists, and a gable end fireplace with bar and broach stops alongside a stone-lined oven with stone-framed opening. The wide central hall has a chamfered cross beam with step stops. The parlour in the rear wing contains reused ceiling beams originally plastered, with a small section of original plaster remaining, and a large gable end fireplace with ovolo-moulded timber lintel with bar and hollow step stops. Above the lintel is a moulded plaster frieze decorated with fleur-de-lis and other motifs. The first-floor chamber over the parlour in the wing has a gable end fireplace with ovolo-moulded timber lintel with hollow step stops and a moulded plaster panel dated 1634, bearing the initials G over CM with fleur-de-lis and sprays of flowers. Beside the chimney-breast is a moulded plaster fleur-de-lis. The fireplace hearth is slate-on-edge but covered in concrete screed. The chamber over the kitchen has a gable end fireplace with chamfered timber lintel with hollow step and bar stops, and a wooden doorframe to the right with cambered head and plank door with scratch mouldings.

The roof over the main range is basically a 17th-century pegged structure but includes some surviving or reused smoke-blackened rafters, four purlins, and one principal. The roof over the rear wing is also 17th-century with morticed apexes, cranked collars lapped and pegged to the faces of the principals. The stair tower roof is 20th-century.