Description

ULCOMBE KNOWLE HILL
TQ 84 NE
Knowle Hill
6/185
Farmhouse
(formerly listed as
26.4.68 Knowle Hill Fruit
Farmhouse)
II

Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, with early-to-mid C19 facade. Timber
framed. Ground floor clad with small blocks of evenly coursed
stone with brick dressings, first floor with red brick in Flemish
bond. Tile-hanging and exposed framing to rear elevation. Plain
tile roof. Built at right-angles to road. 2 storeys on stone
plinth. Roof hipped to left. Slender brick stack to left end
and broad multiple brick ridge stack with corbelled top, off-centre
to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; three 16-pane
glazing-bar sashes of different sizes, and one tripartite sash,
all in open boxes. Ground floor windows have segmental relieving
arches. Boarded door towards left end and half-glazed door
beneath stack, the latter up 7 steps, both with flat bracketted
hoods. Brick lean-to to left. Stone lean-to to right
incorporating re-used durns. Right gable end has braces curved
beneath rafters to suggest wagon roof. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ8588349262

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655042

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings