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Listed Building record MDR3318 - Old Hall, Foxholes Lane, Kniveton

Type and Period (2)

  • ? (Elizabethan to Victorian - 1600 AD? to 1900 AD?)
  • (Elizabethan to 21st Century - 1600 AD? to 2050 AD)

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Old Hall, Foxholes Lane, Kniveton, a 17th and 18th century building. 'Post Office at Kniveton, C17 and C18 vernacular style but windows with moulded architraves and keyblocks.' (1) From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 25 SW PARISH OF KNIVETON FOXHOLES LANE 2/70 (East Side) Old Hall (now GV Post Office) II House. C17 and C18. 'coursed rubble limestone with gritstone dressings. Tiled roof with brick gable end stack and stone coped gable with kneelers. L-plan with the angle filled in with mono pitched roof. Two-storeys. West front - double fronted. Stone quoins. Central doorway with stone doorcase with low pitched bracketed pediment. Six panelled door, raised and fielded. Rectangular light above. Flanked by glazing bar sashes with raised stone surrounds with keystones. Two similar windows above. South elevation with large projecting chimney stack. Two windows similar to those on the west front and to the left of the stack one blocked two light chamfered mullion window. One similar mullion window in the gable of the east facade. Listing NGR: SK2074050042.' (2)

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Index: NDAT. 3789. 3789.
  • <2> Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1311832?section=official-list-entry.

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Location

Grid reference SK 20740 50042 (point)
Civil Parish KNIVETON, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Apr 1 2026 1:55PM

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