Upper Wyhall

House. The building likely has origins in the 15th century, with substantial alterations and additions in the 16th and early 17th centuries. It is constructed of timber-framing and sandstone rubble, with tile roofs. The house has an irregular plan, with a taller early 17th-century block at the east end. The earlier part, adjoining to the south, has a recessed centre flanked by two gabled cross-wings. Timber framing is exposed on the north side. The eastern range, of two storeys with an attic, features two gables with a gabled stair tower projecting forward between them. The stair tower is close-studded with straight tension braces, has a tall stair window, and a gabled garderobe jettied on two sides at attic level. The exposed trusses within this range have V-struts above the collar. A single-storey porch, re-assembled from old materials, sits under the right-hand gable. The porch incorporates timber posts carved with column details and jetty brackets, stone Tuscan columns, and a stone shield of arms. A stone chimney stack is situated near the centre of the east range. The western part of the house is of two storeys and is framed in square panels. The western cross-wing projects further than the rest of the house and has a late 17th-century stone lean-to against its left-hand return wall. The current doorway to the recessed centre is located to the left of this lean-to, with a chimney to the left of the recessed centre. On the west wall of the wing, an exposed end of a main ceiling joist rests on a rail, suggesting a possible later insertion. The rear wall of the east range is underbuilt with stone on the ground floor and rendered above, and features timber cross-windows. The entire rear wall of the west range is clad in stone. Internally, the east range contains some exposed ovolo-moulded and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The western rear room is lined with early 17th-century square panelling, featuring a decorated frieze, and has a fireplace with a bolection moulded surround and Bristol Delft tiles. An eastern room has early 18th-century raised and fielded panels with a dado rail. The spiral stair is of oak. On the first floor, the eastern room has a plaster vine scroll frieze, and an early 17th-century oak overmantel with two arched panels and carved figures. The eastern cross-wing of the western range is heated by a wide stone fireplace. A blocked doorway with a canted head in a cupboard beside the fireplace suggests a possible former cross-passage and that the east cross-wing may have been rebuilt or extended, with the first floor subsequently removed from the central hall of this range. The two western principal posts have chamfer stops on each side of the empty mortices for the main floor joists, indicating that the hall was originally ceiled. However, the upper part of the eastern truss, exhibiting smoke-blackening, has V-struts above a collar. The western cross-wing is independently framed.