Upton Manor Farmhouse

SY 59 SW LODERS UPLODERS

3/198 Upton Manor 7-8-52 Farmhouse

GV II*

Detached Farmhouse. C16, with a rebuilt lower end (byre) dated I K 1655 at rear, and with an early C18 extension at upper end. Coursed rubble-stone walls, with dressed stone walls at right hand. Thatch roof, with stone gable-copings, the lower end with ovolo kneelers, the upper end with hollow-chamfered kneelers. Brick stack at left hand gable, and left of centre, backing on to cross- passage. Stone stack with moulded cornice at right hand gable, early C18. 1½ - 2 storeys. 5 windows, 2- and 3-light wooden casements with glazing-bars, 4-light to hall. Wooden cills and lintels. Left hand window has a stone frame and returned label over, Cl7. First floor window at upper end with stone-moulded jamb, C18. Doors: C20 door into lower end, new opening; cross-passage door blocked. Door, right of centre, plank with 6 glass lights, C20. Wooden lintel. Lower end, rear elevation, stone mullions (ovolos) to ground and first floor windows, 4-light and 3-light. Datestone has lead letters and numbers. Large stone gabled-coping over with kneelers. Rear service range, C17 with an C18 extension. Same materials. Brick stacks on ridge, from major kitchen fireplace. 1½ storeys. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows. Straight joint marks the extension. Plank door on south side in the angle. Stable-door to the extension. Interior: 5 jointed-cruck trusses based on a sleeper wall, 2 collared Jointed-cruck construction in the rear service range. Hall ceiling in 9 compartments, with moulded ceiling beams,- and wall beams intact, Cl6. Plank-and-muntin screen of Cl6 date with large straight chamfer. Top and base plates mainly intact. Service-range has mid-chamfered ceiling-beams with run-out stops. Large open fireplace with chamfered wood lintel. Bread oven removed. c.ll foot width. RCHM Dorset I, p 140 (15).

Listing NGR: SY5113193530