The Knapp
THE KNAPP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174029
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Knapp
- Statutory Address:
- THE KNAPP
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- Date:
- 2002-07-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/08160/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174029
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Knapp
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KNAPP
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE KNAPP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selworthy
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 93142 45503
Details
SS94NW SELWORTHY CP TIVINGTON 4/127 The Knapp (formerly listed as Hooper's Cottages) - 22.5.69
GV II Farmhouse, now dwelling. C16, enlarged C17, altered and enlarged mid C19. Rendered and roughcast rubble and cob, triple ridge tile roofs, large lateral stack beside left gable end, on left return and at right gable end. Plan: original block lying north-south enlarged to east, C19 cross wing added north-east corner. North front: 2 storeys, 1:2:1 bays; gable fronted outer bays, first floor left 3-light octagonal mullioned window, centre leaded iron casement, small C20 window right, wooden casement right gable end, ground floor left 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned window, 3-light C19 Tudor arch head casement right, semicircular headed door frame, possibly reset, and plank door, 2-light Tudor arch head window right, also in re-entrant angle. Long left return of 3 bays, possibly originally longer since the walls continue south. Interior: not seen but said to contain 3 pairs of cruck trusses in west range with very large bay lengths, ovolo moulded lintel to lateral stack fireplace. (Photograph in NMR; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1980).
Listing NGR: SS9314245503
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265541
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1980)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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