Upper Lower House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Farmhouse, cottage.
Upper Lower House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-stone-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Upper Lower House Farmhouse, Michaelchurch Escley
- OS grid reference
- SO 299 368
- Coordinates
- 52.02537, -3.02277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Lower House Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a cottage, likely dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and features end stacks. The building has a two-room plan, with a catslide outshot and a bread oven located at the junction with the catslide. It is one storey high with an attic, and has two 19th-century casement windows that are evenly spaced, along with two gabled half-dormers. The entrance is gabled, probably from the 19th century, and is covered by a stone roof. It leads to a moulded door frame and a ledged door fitted with spear-headed strap hinges.
Inside, the farmhouse has closely-set ceiling joists and run-out stop-chamfers on the beam above a plank and muntin screen, which features a round door head on the right end and a square head with a ledged door on the left end. The room further from the entrance, beyond the screen, has a chamfered beam with broach stops. A ledged round-headed door on the left side of the chimney leads to stone-newel stairs that are illuminated by splayed windows. The roof truss does not have a tie-beam; instead, it has a V-brace above the collar supported by four studs joined by rails, with a central gap for a door between the two upper rooms.
Local climate
Upper Lower House Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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