Knowle Including Garden Boundary Wall And Mounting Block To South East

This is an 18th-century farmhouse, remodelled internally around 1830. It has rubble walls, with the first floor on the left-hand side finished with slate cladding. The house has rendered brick stacks, one lateral at the front, one axial to the right, and a gable end stack to a wing at the back. The slate roof is hipped at both left and right ends. The house has an unusual L-shaped plan, representing a transition from a traditional three-room layout with a through passage to a double-depth plan.

The right-hand side contains two rooms in a row, likely with an integral dairy behind the left-hand room; to the left of these is a stairhall, and beyond that, the house was originally double-depth. The two rooms on the right were the principal rooms facing the garden, while the rooms to the right of the entrance hall appear to have been used for service purposes. Around 1830, the house was remodelled internally, with new fittings, but the only plan alteration was the removal of the wall between the two principal rooms, creating a single large room. The house has two storeys and a cellar.

The front of the house has an asymmetrical three-window facade with 18th-century wooden transomed windows, some with three and others with four lights, featuring leaded panes and mainly old glass, set within stone segmental arches. A six-panel door, dating from the early 19th century, is located to the left of the centre, accompanied by a contemporary porch supported by reeded columns and pilasters. A cellar window is to the left of the door. The front of the wing at the left-hand end was remodelled around 1830 with a regular three-window facade of 16-pane sashes on the first floor and 24 panes on the ground floor. A small two-storey outbuilding is attached to the right-hand gable end. At the rear, the stairwell and dairy are flush with each other, and there is an arched stair window.

The interior features primarily date from the 19th-century remodelling. The principal room has a simple cornice with a decorative bracket, likely marking the original position of the partition wall. It includes a Victorian marble fireplace. The entry hall and first-floor landing have reeded architraves around doorways, with a similar arch halfway along the hall. The staircase has turned newels and stick balusters. The right-hand room was likely originally the kitchen and contains an open fireplace with a cambered wooden lintel supported on corbel stones at either end.

The property includes a rubble garden boundary wall at the front, with stone piers to a gateway topped with rounded caps. There is also a mounting block to the right of the gateway. The house is notable for its transitional plan, which prioritized service quarters over living accommodation, and for the retention of the unassuming 18th-century entrance facade despite the 19th-century garden front and interior remodelling.