Upper House Farmhouse Including Storage Range

SO67NW 482-1/7/210

WHEATHILL SILVINGTON Upper House Farmhouse including storage range

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 and C18. C16 wing forming old range with painted timber-frame with painted brick panel infill, and stone rubble gables. Plain-tile roof. At gable end is a large stone stack with sandstone-slate offsets and 2 diagonally-set stone shafts capped with later brick shafts. C18 wing forming new range with stone rubble, render, and brick. Old tile roof with brick-coped gables and integral gable-end chimneys. PLAN: L-shaped with 3-bay wing aligned east-west forming the old range and C18 wing at right angles to the east forming the new range. EXTERIOR: old range north side has 3-framed bays of square framing 3 panels high with braces at truss posts; posts and middle rails. Boarded door and small casement to right-hand bay, window openings at ground and first floor in middle bay, casement to left bay. To right is projecting stone stack and to extreme right is a stone agricultural storage range with tiled roof. Left gable-end return: stone rubble gable end with 2-light casement at first floor and C20 casement at ground level. South side: wall underbuilt in stone rubble. To left are stone steps leading to boarded door. Right side masked by projecting new range. Left side abuts single-storey agricultural storage range. New range west front: scattered fenestration of 8/8 and 4/8 sashes at both floors and 2 ground-floor fixed-light windows. Boarded door to left under a lean-to porch. Openings with brick segmental lintels. Gable-end returns have pair of casements at attic level each side, one to north leaded. Rear to east: rendered wall with all openings under cambered heads. Central staircase windows of 4/8 sash with 8/8 sash below, both set at landing heights. To right are 4/8 sashes at first and ground floors. To left is 4/8 sash at first floor. To ground-floor left is 6-panelled door with upper glazed panels. INTERIOR: old range has single purlin roof with 4 closed trusses. Diagonally-set ridge, straight wind braces with cross-lapped joints at purlin. Trusses with cambered tie beams, vertical struts and collar. Internal trusses have door openings interrupting tie beam. West end truss built into stack with tie beam trimmed for door under. Wattle and daub infill survives internally. Central and west bays have smoke-blackened timbers. Cross frames with jowled posts, square framing and braces. Ground-floor bridging beam with deep chamfer set on jowled post within cross-frame. Large chamfered mantlebeam with run-out stops. New range has dogleg staircase with shaped flat balusters. (Shropshire Sites and Monuments Record: 1978-: SA 548).

Listing NGR: SO6194179726