Upper House and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1953. Farmhouse, hop kiln, byre.
Upper House and Attached Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- other-vestry-vermeil
- 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, hop kiln, byre
- Address
- Upper House and Attached Outbuildings, Brinsop and Wormsley
- OS grid reference
- SO 423 479
- Coordinates
- 52.12673, -2.8431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper House and attached outbuildings is a farmhouse, hop kiln, and byre, likely built in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with later alterations. The structure features a timber frame with brick nogging and weatherboards, along with sandstone rubble. The roofs are made of tile, Welsh slate, and corrugated iron. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with the house forming the first arm and the byre the last, connected by a 19th-century hop kiln.
The building is two storeys high. The west elevation has the house in the center and to the right, with a gable front at the far right. The house features a three-light glazing bar casement in a dormer at the center and four contemporary casements in the gable front. The ground floor has similar casements, with three entries: a ledged door to the left and center, and a glazed door at the gable front. There is a truncated side stack to the left. The frame consists of two to three and a half square panels high, situated between and above brick underpinning.
To the left of the house is a framed motion that has been converted into a garage, which connects to the hipped-roofed hop kiln with sandstone rubble walls. The byre, attached to the east of the hop kiln, has a sandstone rubble first floor and a weatherboarded timber frame on the left, comprising four structural bays. The south elevation features two openings for a toilet and five ground-level entries, most of which have ledged doors. The frame here is two square panels high from sandstone to wall-plate.
Inside the house, there is a fireplace in the southern principal room with chamfered stone jambs and an oak lintel. The north end of the main range has cusped wind-braces that may have been reused. The byre includes queen strut trusses with V-struts above the collars, and one gable displays a lozenge pattern with scissor struts.
Local climate
Upper House and Attached Outbuildings receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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