Description

ST4615 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP HIGHER STREET (West side)
9/218 Knapp Farmhouse and front
boundary wall and railings
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GV II
Detached farmhouse. Early C19. Ham stone ashiar; plain clay tiled roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chianey
stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays. Plinth, band course; horizontal-bar casement windows, 3-light to outer bays and 2-light to
inner, with voussoired flat arched heads: to lower bay 3 a 6-flush-panel door in recess with architrave, under moulded
flat stone hood on corbel brackets. Single-storey extension with clay pantiled roof to north gable. Interior not seen.
About 3 metres east of house a near- ashlar wall about 750mm high with cast-iron railings about 450mm high, consisting
of 2 square horizontal rods, set diagonally, with cast uprights at about 1.5 metre intervals; pair gates opposite door
to house, wrot iron to match, all adding to the setting of the house, in a prominent position facing the end of Little
Street.

Listing NGR: ST4678015803

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534102

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair