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
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1966
Type
Mansion
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

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