Upper Gore Farmhouse

Upper Gore Farmhouse is a former farmhouse of late 17th-century date, probably 1676 (as indicated by a re-used datestone), with 18th-century alterations and extensive renovation and alteration in 1990.

The house is constructed with earlier work in coursed gray rubble and the remainder in brick laid in English garden wallbond, all set on a stone plinth and roofed with Welsh slate. It follows a T-plan overall. The development of the house is unclear. The rear wing contains 3 rooms. The 2 rooms furthest from the front range are built in stone with 17th-century detailing, share a large central fireplace, and are quoined to all corners. This is an unusual plan for a house of this status, and it is likely that it originally abutted a timber-framed structure now replaced in brick but sharing the same stone plinth. The front range, although rebuilt, retains its original 3-room, cross-passage plan, with the passage now containing exceptionally wide late 18th-century stairs.

The front range has an irregular facade of 3 windows, all under segmental heads: 3-light casements to the first floor and 2 and 3-light casements to the ground floor. An off-centre doorway is positioned under a slate pentice. The left-hand end wall has been rebuilt in brick; the right return has 3-light casements to each floor. The rear of the right-hand room has large external stack with set-offs. The brick part of the rear wing has a porch in the angle re-using a 17th-century doorway with a re-set lintel dated RGK 1676.

The stone section, facing the farmyard, has on the first floor 2-3 light windows with chamfered and rebated surrounds and diamond mullions (one in red sandstone), with a small chamfered former stair light between. The ground floor has 2 replaced windows (one under segmental head) and a doorway to the left. The end wall has similar 17th-century windows of 3 lights to both ground and first floors (under hood moulds), both deeply rebated, and a plainer 2-light mullioned window lighting the attic. The rear elevation has one 3-light mullioned window to both floors and a single-light window with chamfered surround on the first floor. A wide doorway with half-glazed door is set close to the end wall.

Internally, much of interest is probably concealed under later cladding. The ceiling beams are boxed. The roof, although considerably altered, retains 17th-century trusses to the rear and one large truss (retained from the older building) to the front range.

The house and the farmbuildings, the latter much rebuilt although retaining 17th-century features and a 1694 datestone, enclose a good cobbled yard.