Description

ST4828 SOMERTON CP WATER LANE (East side)

8/231 Maypole Knap House

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GV II

Detached House. Early C19. Local lias stone roughly cut and squared; Welsh slate roof to higher portion, clay pantiles
to remainder; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 and 4 bays. Small pane 2-light casement windows of earlier pattern
with deep stone lintols, no window upper bay 2; the window to upper bay 4 set into the lower roof, and below it a
6-panel door set under a flat stone hood on corbel brackets; to bay 5 a single light window only, and bays 6 and 7
higher level casements only. Interior not seen. Forms good group with The Manse (qv) and Lomans (qv). House takes its
name from the nearby field, which was the site of the annual May Day festivities until c1940.

Listing NGR: ST4829628551

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26308441

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)