Upton Farmhouse

EAST KNOYLE UPTON ST 83 SE (west side) 8/64 Upton Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Late C17 with l-bay addition and new roof c1870. Dressed limestone, fishscale tiled roof with coped verges and brick and stone stacks. L-plan. Two-storey, 4-window front. C19 door to centre of original range with 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement either side and C19 mullioned casement to right. First floor has 3-light mullioned casement either side of 2-light over door with C19 three-light mullioned casement to right. C17 casements are leaded, C19 ones are cast-iron latticed. Lean-to brick shed to left return with blocked single-light recessed chamfered light to attic. Right return has blocked doorway, C20 renewed mullioned windows, one C19 cast iron casement to first floor. Rear has glazed door and two 2-light leaded casements to ground floor and 3-light to first floor, late C19 two-storey rear wing linked to main range by first floor passage on posts, cast iron mullioned casements or C20 casements. Interior has two open fireplaces on stone jambs, the north with reused deeply chamfered beam with joist mortices, C17 chamfered beam reused for south lintel, chamfered beams with ogee stops, most of joinery Cl9. Part of Seymour family estate, sold to Wyndhams 1876 and became part of Clouds estate. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol XI, 1980).

Listing NGR: ST8710431880