Uphampton Farmhouse

DOCKLOW CP AND off A 44 (north side) SO.55 NE DOCKLOW (DET) CP 3/50 Uphampton Farmhouse 11.6.59 GV II Farmhouse. Early C17, altered mid-C19. Sandstone rubble and roughcast timber-frame with multi-gabled two-span slate roofs and large C17 brick stack at centre of valley with blind round-headed arcaded panels and over- hanging cap courses. Two parallel ranges aligned north-east/south-west; northernmost range of four bays, with external rubble chimney and rebuilt detached stack at south-west end, southernmost range of three bays. Two storeys, attic and cellar. Framing: first floor of south elevations is jettied on a moulded bressummer; the gabled attic storeys above the left and central bays are similarly jettied. Framing is otherwise concealed. Main south elevation: comprised of three gabled bays of southernmost range, gables have moulded bargeboards and pendant finials. There are two C19 cellar windows and a ledged and battened cellar door.. The ground floor is raised owing to the incline of the site and has a 3-light C19 casement, a C17 window of four lights with ogee mullions and a moulded architrave, and a central ledged and battened door with a moulded architrave, once approached by a flight of stone steps. On the first floor are two C19 windows of three lights and similar C17 window to that on the ground floor. There are shuttered square openings within the gables. Main entrance at rear has a flat canopy on metal uprights and a C20 door. There are two similar C17 windows in the rear elevation and also six original windows surviving at the north-east end. Interior has some exposed ceiling beams, large fireplaces to the central chimney and part of the original staircase which has panelled square newels with shaped finials. (RCHM, Herefs, Vol III, p 43, item (2); BoE, p 114).

Listing NGR: SO5702157978