Upton House

1. 5118 BITTON BREWERY HILL Upton Cheyney Upton House ST 6969 15/30 II GV 2. Front part rebuilt in 1857 in Tudor style, incorporating early C18 house. Two earlier gabled wings project to rear. Rubble with stone tiled roofs and pairs of diagonally set chimney stacks, the east chimney also has a gabled belfry. East front has 1857 gable end to left in slight break with moulded heads to irregular casement windows. Crenellated link to south front. Lower 2 storey rendered wing with coped verges and 2 ashlar chimneys with moulded stacks. Raised quoins, modillion cornice and blocking course. On first floor 2 segment headed glazing bar sashes in keyed architraves, one to ground floor right and a pair to left. South front 2 and a half storeys. Two projecting gables, centre recess for entrance with crenellated parapet and gabled dormers. Coped gables with saddlestones. Three bays, 2-light windows to attic, 3-light to outer first floor windows and 1-3-1 light crenellated bays to outer ground floor windows, all with moulded heads and transoms, upper floors with drips. Centre bay has angled first floor oriel bay with lozenge shaped label stops, crenellated parapet and foiled heads to transom lights, escutcheon below inscribed 'JP' over 1857. Entrance set in tripartite screen with headstops to label, and foil heads, centre has Tudor arch doorway with moulded panel door. North front has 2 projecting gables, on ground floor with 3-light mullion windows with drips, on first floor segment-headed glazing bar sashes in architraves with acanthus leaf keys; moulded plinth; wings linked by central porch, bracket cornice to doorway; oval keyed windows in gables. Single storey extension to north-east is mid-C19 with cell and warden's room (for manoriel court). Interior: rich Jacobean-style staircase with fret-carved newels with pierced finials and splat balusters, Tudor style fittings including elaborate ceiling cornices and fireplaces.

Listing NGR: ST6923469930