Old Upton

SS 20 SW BUDE-STRATTON

7/231 Old Upton

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SS 20 SW BUDE-STRATTON

7/231 Old Upton 8.3.74

SS 20 SW BUDE-STRATTON

7/231 Old Upton

• II

Farmhouse, now house. C17 or earlier origins, late C18 remodelling, C20 alterations. Whitewashed and roughcast with thatched roof, slate roof to outshut. Projecting rendered stack at right gable end, projecting stack with brick shaft to gable end of wing. Complex development. L plan. Main range originally single depth, extended by wide outshut. Wing projects forward from front at left, date of 1682 on chimneybreast in wing. Wing extended forward by single storey thatched addition with roof hipped at end, addition in use as garage. 2 storeys. Main range 2 windows wide with C20 front door under flat-roofed porch with modillion frieze. Ground floor window left 2-light C20 casement. Ground floor window right circular C18 hornless sash, 10 panes above 10 panes. Thatch eyebrowed over 2 similar first floor windows. Right return of wing has similar sash to first floor and large 4-light C20 ground floor casements. Interior. Massive cross beams and moulded axial beams. C20 fireplace in wing has plaster panel with ornamental shell motif, may be re-used from C17 chimneypiece. Variety of floor levels upstairs. Roofspace inaccessible at time of survey, 1984.

Listing NGR: SS2043804829