Knapp Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. A C17 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Knapp Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- old-pediment-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knapp Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating to the mid-17th century, with extensions from the 18th century and remodelling in the mid-19th century. Part of the building was demolished in the 20th century. The construction is a mix of rendered cob and stone rubble, with a brick and stone rubble rear wing. The roofs are thatched with gabled ends, and there are gable-end stacks with brick shafts.
The main front range has a two-room plan, with a wide cross-passage-like entrance/stair hall, and gable-end stacks. A kitchen wing behind the right-hand room was removed in the 20th century. In the 18th century, a wing was built behind the left room, extended again in the mid-19th century when the house was remodelled. The north west front has three windows, appearing nearly symmetrical, with the right-hand bay projecting slightly. It features 19th-century, three-light casements with horizontal glazing bars, and a central doorway with a flush-panel door and a wooden lattice porch with a tented canopy. The rear has casement windows and a doorway on the right. The south west side of the rear wing is of Flemish bond brick with casement windows, extended on the right with stone rubble. The north east side of the rear wing is of stone rubble and has two small, blocked openings under the eaves.
The interior features 19th-century joinery, including fielded-panel doors, window shutters and a staircase with a column newel and stick balusters. The rear wing contains chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops. On the first floor of that wing, there's a late 17th-century plank door, currently not in its original location, with a geometric design inscribed on one side. The original roof of the main front range has trusses with halved and lapped dovetail jointed collars, trenched purlins and a diagonally-set ridge-piece.
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