Upper Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1985. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Upper Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-stone-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper Farmhouse, Rushton, Wroxeter and Uppington, TF6 5AG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 606 080
- Coordinates
- 52.669, -2.58307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1675, which was remodeled in the mid to late 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with the ground floor refaced in red brick and the first floor rendered, topped with a plain-tile roof. The building has a baffle-entry plan consisting of two framed bays and stands two storeys high with a gable-lit attic.
A central brick ridge stack has a rectangular base with a lozenge-shaped date stone inscribed with "S/FE/1675/GS" and weathering, along with three star-plan shafts that have moulded caps. The front has two windows, with two first-floor 19th-century two-light windows that have straight-sided arched heads and chamfered reveals. The ground floor features two three-light 19th-century wooden casements with transoms, and a central 19th-century gabled brick porch with a chamfered arch.
To the left, there is a one-storey 19th-century brick addition, and to the right, a ground-floor 19th-century canted bay. At the rear, there is a 17th-century stair tower along with 19th-century additions. Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered beams, a large open fireplace with a chamfered lintel in the ground floor room, a 17th-century staircase located in the stair tower, and a 17th-century door leading to the cellar.
Local climate
Upper Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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