Upham Cottage

Upham Cottage is a late 17th and early 18th century cottage, originally two cottages, located in Farringdon. The walls are plastered cob on rubble, with cob or stone rubble stacks. One stack is disused, and the other has a 19th century brick chimney shaft, over a slate roof which was originally thatched.

The cottage originally comprised two adjoining one-room plan cottages, facing north, and are now joined into a single house. Each room originally had a projecting end stack, but the stack to the right (west) appears to have been rebuilt and is now disused. The front of the cottage has an essentially symmetrical two-window façade to the north, with a third ground floor window blocking the former doorway to the left cottage. The windows are late 19th and early 20th century casements with glazing bars, although the first floor window on the right may be slightly earlier. A 20th century stable-type door replaces the original front door to the left of centre. The roof is gable-ended.

The interior retains much of the original plain carpentry detail. Both rooms have heavy axial beams, roughly soffit-chamfered with run-out stops – the left beam includes one straight cut stop. The right beam has been cut through by a 20th century staircase. The left fireplace has a stone rubble surround with a rough oak lintel, while the right fireplace is blocked and appears to have been rebuilt. The roof is believed to be original only over the left room.