Knowle Farmhouse

SOURTON SX 59 SW

8/116 Knowle Farmhouse -

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa mid C17, altered in C20. Rendered stone rubble and cob walls. Gable ended asbestos slate roof. Hipped corrugated iron roof to attached shippon. One axial rubble stack with drip-stones and brick shaft. Plan: Originally 3-room plan, the 2 right-hand rooms heated by an axial stack with back to back fireplaces and doorway in front of the stack into a lobby entrance; unheated service room to their left. The shippon at the left end of the building may be integral, with a full height solid wall dividing it from the house, or otherwise is likely to be C18. In the C20 the rooms were partitioned off longitudinally towards towards the rear of the house and an outshut added at its right-hand end. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with shippon at left-hand end continuous with the house. Windows are mainly later C20 small-paned casements, single light above the door, otherwise 2-light. The 2 left-hand windows are late C19 or early C20. C19 plank door at left end and C20 plank door to right of centre. C20 outshut against right end wall. The shippon has a door at its right end and one to left of centre which has a ventilation slit to its left. There is a small window between the 2 doors and a central first floor loading hatch. Interior: The central room of the house has a fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel which has straight cut stops. Axial chamfered beam without visible stops but its joists are chamfered with straight cut stops. Roughly chamfered axial beam and joists in right-hand room. The fireplace in this room is modern. The shippon has very heavy rough wany cross beams. The roof timbers of the house were completely replaced in the later C20, it was formerly thatched. Over the shippon are rough insubstantial straight principals with lapped collars - probably C19.

Listing NGR: SX5155091622