Uplands

House, now old people's home. Built circa 1780 for Samuel Jellicoe, great-grandfather of Admiral Jellicoe; extended circa 1840 and later in the 19th century; 20th-century alterations. Cream brick in Flemish bond, with pinker 19th-century brick; graduated Westmorland slate roof; rendered stacks. Sashes with glazing bars under cambered gauged brick arches. Two storeys.

Entrance elevation has three, three, and one bays. The three left-hand bays are 18th-century work; the next three bays were added circa 1840, set back with a single-storey infill at front, and a further two-storey bay projecting on the right serving as a service wing. The original section features a central rusticated ashlar porch with paired Tuscan columns, entablature and blocking course. The doorway has a six-panel double-door with six raised and fielded panels beneath a fanlight with radial glazing bars and an outer band of circles. Stone steps lead up to side openings with console-bracketed cornices. Flanking windows are round-arched in round-arched recesses, with sashes having radial glazing bars to the heads. A 20th-century window has been inserted to the right. A corniced first-floor guilloche sill band and eaves string are present. The hipped roof, probably a replacement, has oversailing eaves and wooden dentils, with corniced stacks.

The left return has two bays matching the front elevation but is masked by a late 20th-century single-storey extension of no special interest. The garden elevation has nine bays, the four left-hand bays matching the style of the original five bays. The ground floor has tall windows rising from ground level with unequally-hung fifteen-pane sashes, formerly with shutters. The three on the left have been replaced with late 20th-century canted French windows. The two windows to bays five and six are contained within an added wood-trellised loggia with metal roof and are flanked by bricked-up windows. The first floor matches the entrance front. A single-storey one-bay billiard-room addition on the left has a large former opening partly blocked and fitted with a late 20th-century tripartite sash.

Interior: The 18th-century part contains a vaulted entrance vestibule with a later screen. There is a good curving stair with open string, stick balusters, moulded handrail and spiral curtail. A domed glazed light-well over the stair has an acanthus frieze at its base. Panelling is present below bedroom windows. A late 18th-century style stair in the service wing rises from the cellar with closed string, stick balusters (partly boarded up) and columnar newels. The circa 1840 ballroom has near-complete Gothic-style decoration including dado, finialled door architraves, panelled doors, window architraves, eaves band and compartmental ceiling. The billiard-room light-well has a Gothic-traceried frieze. Various decorative 19th-century fireplaces, panelled doors and cupboards are present throughout.

No 61 (Uplands), No 67, together with the gate piers at Uplands, form a group with Uplands Cottage on the Old Turnpike.