Knap Orchard House

Knap Orchard House is a house attached to an earlier cottage, built in 1926 by the architect Detmar Blow. The structure features squared limestone and a stone slate roof, designed in an L-plan with a projecting wing. The main garden front is two storeys high with an attic and has three gables. The ground floor showcases recessed chamfer stone mullioned casements arranged in groups of 2:2, with a plank door in a square moulded surround located between the first and second bays, all set beneath a continuous string course. On the first floor, each gable contains paired casements, with small single lancets above, and there is a single paired casement over the door.

The right side of the building has a gable with an oculus above a 2:2:2-light casement, followed by a projection featuring a 4-light metal casement overlooking a small yard. The entrance arch also has a single gable with similar fenestration to the garden front, including a 2:2-light casement above a large plank door on the left, and a 2:2:2-light window below the gable. The right return has two gables with single lancets above paired casements on both the ground and first floors, along with a blocked 2-light window; to the right is a small quadrant wall with two lancets. Each wing of the house is topped with a large ashlar ridge stack.

Inside, the house retains its original panelling in the stair hall and in two ground floor rooms that are en-suite. There are also two well-designed fireplaces, one featuring a 'Jacobean' overmantel with the date 1926. The staircase includes splat balusters. There is a connection to Knapp Cottage through a door disguised as a bookcase, suggesting that the cottage may have served as a service wing for the new house. This building is a notable and carefully executed work by the architect, who lived in the nearby parish and completed significant projects in Painswick, although this is uniquely a completely new construction by him.