Knapp House
Knapp House
Preston Plucknett
Knapp House, a Grade II Listed Building, nestles in a cul de sac in the former old village of Preston Plucknett opposite Preston Great Farm (Abbey Farm). The house is seventeenth century and certainly earlier than 1675. The front and sides are of local stone cut and squared, the rear has a modern brick wall replacing cob. The roof is thatched with brick chimney stacks.
In plan it is a substantial Somerset cross passage house of two storeys although the original kitchen seems to have been single storey.
The main
entrance
elevation is
dominated by a
nineteenth
century
two-storey
angled bay
window with
sashes. The
front door to
the left of this
bay window has
six reeded
panels on a
heavy frame set
on plain reveals
and lacks a
porch. To the
left of the
entrance is a
stone mullioned
kitchen window
with hollow
chamfers,
probably early
eighteenth
century. The
other ground
floor windows,
to the right of
the bay are late
eighteenth
century 12-pane
sashes,
separated by a
stone string
course from the
first floor
windows which
are in
un-moulded
mullioned window
surrounds with
small leaded
panes. There is
another matching
window to left
of the bay.
gallery
Knapp House. Photographed in 1942.
.... and photographed in 2014 - part of sale particulars.
