Listed Building record MDO22159 - Knapp House, Wyke Street, Gillingham

Late eighteenth century house with extensions and alterations of various later periods. Ashlar and rubble walls with a gable-ended slate roof with stone copings and stone chimney stacks.

Knapp House. Two-storeyed with attic, it has walls of ashlar and rubble and tiled roofs. It probably dates from the later C18th but has been much-altered. <2>

Knapp House Late C18th with extensions and alterations of various later periods. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1964 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 8033 2645) Knapp House [NAT]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 31 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(15) KNAPP HOUSE (80332645), 350 yds. S.W. of (1), is of two storeys with attics; it has walls of ashlar and of rubble, and tiled roofs. It dates probably from the second half of the 18th century, but it has been much altered. The E. front is ashlar-faced and has sashed windows with moulded architraves in six irregularly spaced bays. The doorway, in the third bay from the S., has moulded jambs and a broken pediment; in front of the doorway is a modern stone porch. The gabled S. wall of the original range is faced with modern ashlar; the W. front is largely masked by later additions and the N. end of the range is concealed by a 19th-century extension.

Inside, the original plan is obscured by later modifications; two of the windows in the E. front are blocked by later chimneybreasts. The stairs formerly had an oval window, now blocked. Some rooms have chamfered beams and moulded cornices, and there are areas of 18th-century panelling.’

<3> DOE (HHR), 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District (Scheduling record). SDO17732.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 912775 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 5 2022 5:07PM