Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
9255
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/04/1993  
Date of Amendment
29/04/1993  
Name of Property
Knowle Farmhouse  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
New Radnor  
Town
 
Locality
Knowle Hill  
Easting
322065  
Northing
261894  
Street Side
 
Location
Lies 1km north-east of New Radnor and approached via lane leading north off Kinnerton Road.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Probably mid-C18, C19 alterations and additions. Two storeys with cellar. Coursed rubble on low plinth, painted front elevation, hipped slate roof, boxed eaves, two tall rubble stacks set to either side of ridge. Ground-floor windows under cambered voussoir heads, first-floor windows under eaves. All modern two-light, small-paned timber casements; ground-floor windows have transoms and are said to be copies of ones replaced. Stone cills to front elevation. Central panelled front door with plain overlight, slate canopy porch with chamfered posts, curved braces and decorative pierced bargeboards. Brick and slate C19 wash-house with brick end stack adjoins to rear.  

Interior
Original plan with front parlour and kitchen, central stairs, back kitchen, pantry and dairy. Chamfered and scroll-stopped beams throughout, large stone flags to all floors, salting slab in dairy; C19 stairs with stick balusters and boarded underside, four-panel doors to front room, boarded doors to rear rooms, narrow back stairs from kitchen leads to room once used as granary and later for staff.  

Reason for designation
 

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