Knowle Cottage

Knowle Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid-17th century, which was enlarged in the late 19th century and modernized with a kitchen extension built around 1970. The cottage is constructed of plastered granite stone rubble with granite stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brickwork, and has a thatched roof. Originally a two-room plan with a central north-south facing passage, the right room has a projecting lateral stack and contains a winding stair. A left room was added in the 19th century, along with an outshot containing pigsties and a woodshed built in front of the original right room. A 20th-century kitchen extension has been added to the right end. The cottage is single-storied and two-story high. The left room on the front has a ground-floor horned four-pane sash window, and the passage front doorway features a 19th-century part-glazed six-panel door. The roof extends over the outshot. On the rear, there are 20th-century windows, some of which are PVC with glazing bars, although one at first-floor level is from the 18th or 19th century and contains rectangular panes of leaded glass. Inside the original right room, there’s an original 17th-century soffit-chamfered crossbeam with bar-runout stops. The fireplace here is granite stone rubble with an unusually thin (replacement?) oak lintel. An A-frame roof truss is incorporated into a crosswall. A disused 17th-century oak window, small and with two lights and a chamfered mullion, is visible behind a cupboard in the passage. The left room has a plain-chamfered crossbeam and the granite fireplace has a similarly finished oak lintel.