Uplandside

UPLANDSIDE

House, formerly farmhouse. Early 16th century with restored fabric and substantial additions and alterations in the 1930s. Timber framed with colourwashed infill and a thatched roof. Two storeys. Three-cell plan.

On the entrance front, close studded walling features a sill plate with butt-ended joints. Arched bracing occurs to the ground floor at the right and to the first floor at the right with two arched braces at the left, indicating a possible altered Wealden plan. At ground floor level, slightly left of centre, is a 20th-century doorway with a four-centred arch and brattished bressumer above. To the left of this are two two-light windows with moulded mullions, and further left a four-light and three-light casement divided by a small single-light. To the right of the door is a 20th-century oriel window of four lights with cavetto-moulded underbelly, moulded sill and brattished cresting. Further right is a three-light window, and at the far right a T-shaped window with four central lights falling low, flanked by two-light upper windows. At first floor level, two four-light windows with moulded mullions occupy the centre, with a five-light window to the left, featuring a two-light and a four-light moulded mullion at the right. At the ridge, right of centre, stands a chimney stack with three octagonal flues.

The right-hand end has a half-hipped roof and close studding with arched braces to the first floor. A ground floor doorway sits at the left, with a three-light and single-light casements to its right. The first floor has an eight-light window with a central king mullion. The left-hand gable end displays a hipped roof and a small courtyard with an enclosing wall at ground floor level. A chimney stack at the left has a rectangular base and sawtoothed stacks.

To the rear, an addition of circa 1930 projects at the right, featuring French windows and arched braces brought in from a late-medieval house in Ipswich. The 16th-century body of the house at the left of this includes a projecting bay of 1930s construction with close studding of planted timbers, incorporating a five-light window at the left, a three-light window at the right, and upper five lights between these. An eyebrow dormer of five lights sits above. To the left is close studded walling to both floors with an arched brace to the first floor at the left. At ground floor level, a T-shaped window with four central lights and two upper lights at either side occupies the left, with a small three-light window to the right, followed by a four-light window with lower sill and another rectangular bay window of 1930s date with hipped roof, brick plinth and five lights at the far right. The first floor contains three four-light eyebrow dormers, one similar three-light window and a two-light window set in the walling, all appearing to be of 20th-century date.

The interior contains a screens passage with a timber screen featuring chamfered muntins and plain boards with one two-centred arched doorway. The dining room has richly-moulded ceiling beams and joists. Another ground floor room displays similar timber, largely of 1930s date, while a further ground floor room has chamfered beams. The first floor rooms contain close studding with arched braces, a moulded purlin and a massive arch brace connecting to a cambered tie beam. Despite heavy restoration in the 1930s, a substantial amount of original fabric survives from this well-built and substantial farmhouse.