Upper House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Upper House
- WRENN ID
- turning-loggia-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper House, Clunbury, SY7 0HG
- OS grid reference
- SO 371 805
- Coordinates
- 52.41912, -2.92626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the early and late 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of pebbledashed timber frame, roughcast rubble stone, and red brick, with slate roofs. The original house comprised three framed bays, likely with an end baffle entry, and a taller, slightly projecting gabled addition at a right angle to the right, forming an L-plan. The eaves of the long range were raised in the 19th century. The long range is two storeys high, and the late 17th century addition has a gable-lit attic. The long range includes three 19th-century casement windows directly below the eaves, and large wooden mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor to the left and centre. The entrance is through a four-panel door (now with glazed top panels), under a 20th-century lean-to porch. A brown brick axial ridge stack stands directly above the door. The gabled addition includes 19th-century casements to the first floor and attic of the front gable. A rendered rubble stone and brick lean-to extends to the rear of the long range, likely a former dairy.
The interior of the long range features a large stack with an inglenook fireplace, with a girding beam and visible mortices for square panels on the original back wall, alongside a slightly jowled post to the left of the fireplace. There are chamfered cross beams with stepped ogee stops. An oak winder staircase is situated to the right of the stack. A ground-floor room in the gabled addition has two chamfered spine beams with stepped ogee stops, similar to those in the long range, and likely reused. A plank door with strap hinges leads to a cellar beneath the gabled addition, which has a stone-flagged floor and a timber-framed spine wall with square panels. Oak panelling throughout the house is said to be reused, having been brought from the Church of St. Swithun.
Local climate
Upper House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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