KNOWLE HERITAGE WALK TWO
Cottages & Locks
3 – Kenilworth Road to Kixley Lane
ROUTE:
From the locks, turn back up the towpath and leave via the path that leads up to the bridge, which you passed underneath previously, just beyond the boatyard. Turn left along Kenilworth Road and follow it to the junction with Kixley Lane.
PLACES OF INTEREST:
9 Manor House – This Grade II listed building, originally the lodge of Knowle Hall, home to the Lord of the Manor, dates from the late 16th century. Leaded light windows to the front, added during alterations circa 1900, are embellished with two seals from Westminster Abbey.
10 Golden End Cottage – This fine Grade II listed cottage, no 49 Kenilworth Road, dates from the late 16th century and was at one time the village forge.
11 Black and White Cottages – Eight of nos 72 to 98 Kenilworth Road are Grade II listed and date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Their front gardens comprise what is thought to have once been a market square.
12 The Cottages – Sideways on to Kenilworth Road, but perhaps facing the former market square, nos 62 to 70 were built early in the 1800s.
13 Golden End House – No 45 Kenilworth Road is a timber framed former farmhouse with an Edwardian frontage.
14 The Old Barn House – It is easier to see the former life of no 43 Kenilworth Road as a barn by turning briefly into Kixley Lane to see its longer facade there.