Knap House Broadway, England
Listed Building Data
Knap House has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1214962
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 30 July 1959
- Name
- KNAP HOUSE
- Location
- KNAP HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Parish
- Broadway
- District
- Wychavon
- County
- Worcestershire
- Grid Reference
- SP 10505 37587
- Easting
- 410505.0000
- Northing
- 237587.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SP 1037 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET(north side) 9/66 Knap House (formerly listed as part of Top Farmhouse) 30.7.59 GV II House. Circa 1900. Possibly by Prentice. Squared limestone with stone slate roof. Two storeys. Windows are rebated and chamfered with mullions. At the left is one bay which has 2-light windows. To its right is a canted bay window which has four lights with a transom at the front and two lights to each side, and has a dentilled cornice below a parapet with coping. Above under a gable are two 3-light windows with trasoms, and a carved initial "W". Set back at the right is a first floor link to East House (qv) which has a double-chamfered two-centred archway on the ground floor and a 4-light window above. Top Farmhouse was bought by Mr Wells, the inventor of Quaker Oats, circa 1900. The house has since been sub-divided and his extensions now form Knap House. (Houghton, CC: A Walk About Broadway, 1980).
Listing NGR: SP1050537587
