Upper House Farmhouse Including Storage Range

Upper House Farmhouse is a building of 16th and 18th century origin, situated in Wheathill, Silvington. It comprises an original 16th-century wing and a later 18th-century addition, forming an L-shaped layout.

The original wing exhibits a timber-frame structure with painted brick infill and stone rubble gables, covered by a plain-tile roof. A prominent stone stack is situated at one gable end, featuring sandstone-slate offsets and brick shafts. The 18th-century wing is constructed from stone rubble with render and brick detailing, also with a plain-tile roof, brick-coped gables, and integral gable-end chimneys.

The north side of the old range displays a three-bay square framing pattern, three panels high, with bracing at the truss posts. It features a boarded door and casement windows. A projecting stone stack is present, alongside a stone agricultural storage range. The left gable-end return has a two-light casement at first floor and a 20th-century casement at ground level. The south side has stone rubble foundations and stone steps leading to a boarded door.

The west front of the newer range has a scattered arrangement of 8/8 and 4/8 sash windows at both floors, alongside ground-floor fixed-light windows. A boarded door is located on the left, sheltered by a lean-to porch. The gable-end returns have pairs of casements at attic level, one of which is leaded. The rear elevation has rendered walls with openings beneath cambered heads. A central staircase window is flanked by 4/8 sash windows, set at landing heights. A 6-panelled door with glazed upper panels is situated on the left side.

Internally, the old range features a single-purlin roof with closed trusses, diagonally-set ridge timbers, and straight wind braces with cross-lapped joints. The trusses have cambered tie beams, vertical struts, and collars, with some internal trusses accommodating door openings. Surviving wattle and daub infill is present, alongside smoke-blackened timbers. Cross frames with jowled posts, square framing, and braces are also visible. A ground-floor bridging beam with a deep chamfer sits on a jowled post within a cross-frame, and a large chamfered mantlebeam has run-out stops. The newer range incorporates a dogleg staircase with shaped, flat balusters.