Knapp House

SO 61 NE 6/126 23.9.55

LONGHOPE MONMOUTH ROAD (east side)

Knapp House (formerly listed as Knap House)

II

Detached house; mid C17, early C19. Timber-framed with wattle and daub infill over rendered stone plinth; part rear random rubble stone; left-hand half rendered wall; slate roof. Four room plan, in line. Main facade: right-half timber-framed at first-floor, 3 panels high: 2 sash windows. Ground floor boarded door on right under segmental sheet metal hood supported by 2 iron rods: to left a 4-pane wide sash window, with further door at left end. Left half of front set forward slightly, but roof continuous: upper floor level higher than on right. Two sash windows first-floor: below wider windows under hoodmoulds: right- hand one retains 4-pane wide sash window. Right-hand gable, stone ground floor, timber-framing on first, with braces from corner posts extending only one panel down: gable timberwork rendered over. Internally timber-framed half originally had attic floor, set only half in roof: of 2 bays originally, without tie-beam, principal rafters being tenoned into brace between wall-head and floor beam (2 braces survive). Re-roofed as 3 bays. Three panelled doors with scratch mouldings survive to stairs in right-hand hall.

Listing NGR: SO6918418686