Upbury Farm House

YETMINSTER ST 5910 CHURCH STREET (West side)

11/117 Upbury Farm House 11.7.51

GV II*

Farmhouse. C15 of open-hall form. Hall floored over in C16, and further alterations in C17. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roof with coped gable at left end. One plastered stack at left end, one brick stack at right end, one brick stack left of door - backing on to cross-passage. 2 storeys. C15 doorway, into cross-passage, with pointed arch, and flush panel oak door, under hoodmould. Left of door 2 C20 reproduction stone mullioned windows with metal casements. 2 similar windows right of door. 4 similar windows on first floor. Also left of door the original C15 hall window, now blocked, of 2 lights, mullioned and transomed, square-headed, with trefoiled light. Left of this the upper part of the solar windows, of similar detail. At right end, a later extension at lower level, of rubble stone with slate roof, set back from the main frontage. Lean-to extension on front of this, under catslide roof. Interior not accessible, but according to RCHM the inserted floor over the hall has intersecting moulded ceiling beams. Collar-beam roof with curved braces. (RCHM Monument 3. Dorset. Vol. I R Machin. "The Houses of Yetminster". University of Bristol, 1978.)

Listing NGR: ST5939510610