Upper House Including Veranda is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Farmhouse. 10 related planning applications.

Upper House Including Veranda

WRENN ID
half-niche-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 2000
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Upper House Including Veranda, Abdon and Heath, SY7 9HZ
OS grid reference
SO 574 863
Coordinates
52.47325, -2.62776
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the 18th and early 19th centuries. It was built in 1816. The house is constructed of rubble stone, coursed stone rubble, and brick, with a hipped slate roof featuring deep eaves and three stacks: a central brick ridge stack, a brick eaves stack, and a projecting stone gable end stack with a brick shaft. The original layout was L-shaped, with extensions to the front, side, and rear.

The front, facing south-west, has a 19th-century brick extension on the right, an 18th-century stone wing in the centre, and a projecting wing forming the L-shape on the left. The brick extension has a single ground-floor sash window and a first-floor timber mullion and transom window with multi-pane casements, both with keyed stone lintels. A 6-panelled door with a toplight and a simple pilaster frame is located to the left. The stone wing features timber mullion and transom windows at each storey, each with a brick segmental-headed lintel. A 19th-century open veranda covers the ground storey. The entrance is situated within the south-east projecting wing, which has timber cross-windows on each floor and a plain boarded front door with a hoodmould. All windows have segmental-headed lintels. The left return gable end has an attic casement to the side of the central stone stack. The right return side of the front has an 8/8 sash window above a multi-pane casement, both with keyed stone lintels; the first-floor lintel’s keystone is dated. The rear is partially obscured by a lean-to outshut. A projecting rear wing is constructed of stone, featuring a two-window range with timber mullion and transom casements under brick segmental-headed lintels.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

Local climate

Upper House Including Veranda receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 10 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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