Knott Farmhouse

Knott Farmhouse dates to 1695 and has been altered since. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof. The farmhouse originally comprised two rooms, with a baffle entry at the right-hand end of the front elevation; this has been replaced by a central lobby and staircase. The building is two storeys high and originally three bays wide. It features quoins. A two-storey porch in the middle bay has an ashlar front and a jettied upper storey, supported by a moulded cornice that rises slightly above the enriched lintel of the moulded doorway. The lintel is carved with "IL AL EL" (for John, Ann and Edmund Laycock) and the date 1695. The upper storey of the porch has an ovolo-moulded window of Venetian pattern, with hollow spandrels and a stepped hoodmould, flanked by bulbous detached colonettes with cabled rings, supported on moulded corbels. The gable has moulded coping and kneelers. Double-chamfered stone mullion windows of two large lights are present on each floor to the left side, lacking two mullions and possibly a transom to the ground floor. A hoodmould covers the ground floor windows, interrupted by the porch, and a similar hoodmould covers a single light above. A single light without a hoodmould is above the porch. Gable chimneys are present. Inside, a very large segmental arched fireplace with moulded jambs and voussoirs is located in the right-hand room. A photograph shows that the porch originally stood at the right-hand end of the front elevation, extending further than it does presently.