Upton House And Attached Conservatory

Upton House and its attached conservatory is a detached house built around 1814. It is constructed of painted limestone ashlar and has a slate roof. The building has a rectangular shape with the entrance located on the east side and the conservatory at the south-west corner.

The house is two storeys high and features three windows plus one on the first floor, all of which are twelve-pane sashes. The ground floor has three pairs of margin-light French doors, each with cornices on brackets and leading to three stone steps. All doors are fitted with horizontal sliding Venetian shutters. The central bay is highlighted by a broad portico supported by paired Roman Doric columns, featuring a balustrade and dies. The quoins are plain and recessed, and the building includes a lintel, frieze, blocking course, and parapet, with the blocking raised at the center adorned with a Greek key panel.

To the left, there is a long gabled conservatory with decorative cresting, a twelve-pane sash window with shutters, and two painted stacks. On the right end, a smaller unpainted stack is present, and the set-back bay has a sash window above a deep recessed doorway. This doorway features a floating cornice on brackets and a six-panel door with side-lights and shallow transom lights, all of which are original and lead to a stone landing on two steps.

The interior has not been inspected but is recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust to include a cantilevered stone staircase with plain banisters and a mahogany handrail, high-quality plasterwork, reeded architraves on largely six-panel doors, and a south-facing drawing room with a square arch. Most chimneypieces have been replaced. Historically, this house may have been one of those leased by the Bathwick Estate in 1814 during the early development of the upper slopes of Bathwick Hill, and it was formerly known as Upland House.