8, High Street West

SP 8699-8799 UPPINGHAM HIGH STREET WEST 4/52 (north side)

10.11.55 No 8 (previously listed as Tudor House) GV II*

House. Late C16/early C17. Squared stone front, rubble stone otherwise, with Collyweston stone slate roof, coped gables and stone end stacks with brick shafts. Main block and cross-wing, 2 storeys and attics. Main block, with cornice, has off- centre panelled door in late C18 round-headed architrave with keystone, 8/8 sash windows to ground and first floors to left, and tall 6/6 window to right. Cross-wing has 4-light chamfered stone mullioned window to basement, 2 6/6 sashes to ground floor, another 6/6 sash above and a 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullioned window in the gable. Rear has a 2-storeyed gabled porch with round-headed entrance arch flanked by Doric columns carrying entablature, which continues over another round-headed arch to the left, now window but apparently originally open. Four-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window above entrance. Rear face of cross-wing has a 2-light ovolo- moulded window with cornice, a 4-light ovolo-moulded window with transom, then a similar window without transom and finally a single-light chamfered opening. Upper part of gable rendered. Lower gabled wing, rendered, projects from rear to right of porch.

Listing NGR: SP8657299696