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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- 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.
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