Upper House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1987. Farmhouse.
Upper House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pediment-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper House, Kington Rural
- OS grid reference
- SO 259 549
- Coordinates
- 52.18771, -3.08389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with significant alterations made in the 20th century. The building features square panelled timber-framing, with sections of wattle-and-daub and some 20th-century infill, resting on a sandstone rubble plinth and topped with a tiled roof. It is designed in an L-shape, with wings oriented southwest to northeast and northwest to southeast, meeting at the northwest end. The original through-passage has been blocked off, and there are both a lateral stack and a gable-end stack.
The house has two storeys. On the northeast front, there is a gabled dormer featuring a three-light 20th-century window, and a similar three-light window on the ground floor. The gable end of the cross-wing to the right has two 2-light 20th-century windows. The ground floor also includes a multi-paned 20th-century window to the right of a half-glazed 20th-century door. Inside, the property boasts chamfered ceiling beams and a blocked doorway with a segmental head.
Local climate
Upper House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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