Upham House

SU 27 NW ALDBOURNE UPHAM

1/83 Upham House, Upper Upham 22.8.66

GV II*

Mansion House, 1599, possibly including earlier work. Major extension and alterations of 1909 - 1913 by Biddulph Pinchard. Banded fine gritstone and flint. Stone slate roof with tile on outbuildings. 2-storey, attic and cellars. 'E' plan with entrance to cross passage of hall extending to right, narrower rooms to rear. Wing to right containing servants hall and study. Main elevation to south; symmetrical, 5 bays with 2-storey central porch, round headed door with acanthus keyed archivolt and panelled jambs and simple frieze and cornice on acanthus corbels. Roundels in spandrils. Frieze with initials of builder, Richard Goddard and wife, Elizabeth Walrond, and eye window above with initials TG and AG of Richard's parents. Projecting 2-storey bay windows in 1st and 5th bays, but inset from ends of building: 4-light mullioned and transomed windows, 3-light in intervening bays. Shaped gables over bays and porch, early C20 rebuild. Small hipped dormer in roof with gable parapet and stacks. Earlier dormers suppressed. Rear elevation of 3 gables with door of 1922, stone mullioned windows and brick stacks. Wing to left in Jacobean style, 2-storey and attic with left terminal bay having 2-storey canted mullioned and transomed window bay and large gable. 4-flued stack with octagonal shafts. Bays 2 and 4 have flush gable dormers. Interior: Raised dais in hall. Stair of c1700 to rear. Plaster ceiling to drawing room with caryatid chimneypiece on first floor. (Reference: Country Life 1 August 1922 and W. A. M. XXVIII, 84-6).

Listing NGR: SU2292777136