Description

ST 94 SW,
3/87

KNOOK,
KNOOK VILLAGE (south side),
The Manor House

11.9.68

G.V.

I

Detached house. C16, altered early C17. Dressed limestone, tiled roof with coped verges and stone stacks with moulded cappings. L-plan, hall range has lateral stack to rear. Two-storey, 3-window front. Two-storey gabled porch to centre with Tudor-arched openings, 2-light mullioned casement to first floor and 1637 date stone, 3-light and 2-light mullioned casements to left and 4-light to right, first floor has 4-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with hoodmould either side of porch. First floor has two 4-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds. Wing projecting to right has buttresses with offsets, 2-light mullioned casements to left side, external stack and 2-light and 3-light mullioned casements to gable end, right return has 2-light and 3-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds, C20 conservatory, 3-light mullioned casement to centre, lighting stairs, buttresses up to eaves, first floor with three 2-light mullioned casements. Rear of main range has large lateral stack to left, glazed C20 door, 3-light and 4-light mullioned casement to ground floor, 3-light mullioned casements to first floor, all with hoodmoulds. Rear gable end of wing has 4-light mullioned casements. Left return with attached single-storey addition, 2-light ovolo-mullioned first floor casement.

INTERIOR: main room has inserted Italian stone C16 fireplace, room
to left has open fireplace with raised cambered lintel on stone
jambs. C17 wing has Tudor-arched stone fireplaces to ground and
first floors, ovolo-moulded door case with stops between wing and
main range, 8-panelled wainscot doors; some are early C20 copies.
Stairs in wing with ovolo-moulded newels, missing balusters.
Restored by Crichton-Maitland family in 1920s.

Listing NGR: ST9374041776

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530083

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)