Knapp House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A Early Modern House.
Knapp House
- WRENN ID
- tall-bonework-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTH PETHERTON CP SOUTH STREET (East side) ST4316 7/164 No 1 (Knapp House) 19.4.61
GV II
Detached house. C17 origins, extensively altered in earlier C19. Ham stone ashlar; hipped Welsh slate roof behind high parapet; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 6 bays, of which bays 1 and 2 are set lower and probably of a separate build. Plinth, cornice, plain parapet: sash windows in plain openings; 16-pane upper bays 1 and 2, 20-pane upper bays 3, 4 and 5; C20 small-pane casements lower bays 1 and 2, then large 20-pane sashes bays 3 and 4; bay 6 is set higher and has a bow front, with matching windows below but plain sashes above, in pairs of windows set on the curve: to lower bay 5 an elliptical arch with pair of part-glazed doors, protected by an open stone porch having early pattern Doric columns and pilasters, paired, with plain entablature and flat roof. Matching 2-bay south front, the upper windows blind. Interior not seen. The house known as Naphouse by 1778. In 1934 became a Roman Catholic Mass Centre, being relaced by a new church in 1961; it then became St Elizabeth's House for Elderly Ladies. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4345016816
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