Upham House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. Mansion. 3 related planning applications.
Upham House
- WRENN ID
- empty-beam-willow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Upham House, Aldbourne, SN8 2LF
- OS grid reference
- SU 229 771
- Coordinates
- 51.49271, -1.67114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upham House is a mansion built in 1599, possibly incorporating earlier structures. It underwent significant extensions and alterations between 1909 and 1913, designed by Biddulph Pinchard. The building features banded fine gritstone and flint, with a stone slate roof and tile on the outbuildings. It is two stories high, with an attic and cellars, and has an 'E' plan layout. The entrance leads to a cross passage of the hall that extends to the right, with narrower rooms at the rear. The right wing contains a servants' hall and a study.
The main elevation faces south and is symmetrical, consisting of five bays with a two-story central porch. The porch has a round-headed door adorned with an acanthus-keyed archivolt and panelled jambs, along with a simple frieze and cornice supported by acanthus corbels. Roundels are present in the spandrils. The frieze displays the initials of the builder, Richard Goddard, and his wife, Elizabeth Walrond, along with an eye window above featuring the initials TG and AG, representing Richard's parents. The first and fifth bays project as two-story bay windows, set back from the ends of the building, with four-light mullioned and transomed windows, while the intervening bays have three-light windows. The shaped gables over the bays and porch were rebuilt in the early 20th century, and there is a small hipped dormer in the roof with a gable parapet and stacks, although earlier dormers have been suppressed.
The rear elevation showcases three gables with a door from 1922, stone mullioned windows, and brick stacks. The left wing is designed in the Jacobean style, featuring two stories and an attic, with the left terminal bay having a two-story canted mullioned and transomed window bay and a large gable. It also has a four-flued stack with octagonal shafts, and bays two and four include flush gable dormers. Inside, there is a raised dais in the hall, a staircase dating from around 1700 at the rear, and a plaster ceiling in the drawing room with a caryatid chimneypiece on the first floor.
Local climate
Upham House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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