Lower Upcott is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1953. Farmhouse.
Lower Upcott
- WRENN ID
- guardian-moat-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1953
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Upcott, Almeley
- OS grid reference
- SO 325 508
- Coordinates
- 52.15171, -2.98689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Upcott is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the 17th to early 18th century with later alterations. The structure features a brick and sandstone rubble plinth, timber-frame construction with plaster infill, and a pantile roof topped with a sandstone rubble stack. The building is arranged in an L-plan with arms extending to the north-west and south-west, and it has two storeys and attics.
On the south-east elevation, there are five windows, all rectangular late 20th-century casements, with two two-light windows on the left and three two-light windows on the right. The ground floor has similar windows. To the left, there is a porch with a stone slate roof that contains a glazed late 20th-century door. The timber frame consists of four panels from the cill to the wall-plate.
The rear elevation of the south-west range features a projecting upper storey supported by a bressummer. The south-west elevation of the north-west range displays brickwork with segmental-headed openings. Inside, the building has close studding in the cross walls and a jowled post with a lamb's tongue chamfer-stop. The ceiling beams also have similar stops.
Local climate
Lower Upcott receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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