Upcott Farmhouse

Upcott Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 17th century, with an extension added around the 18th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on a stone plinth, with some areas patched in stone rubble. The roof is gable-ended and covered in corrugated iron, featuring a gable-end stack with a later brick chimney.

The farmhouse has a three-room plan, with a kitchen on the left side that is heated by a large gable-end fireplace. There is a smaller unheated room on the right and a central unheated room that includes an entrance lobby. A straight staircase rises from this lobby. To the left, there is a two-storey, one-room plan extension from the 18th century, and to the right, a later single-storey outbuilding.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window southeast front. The windows are 18th and 19th century two and three-light casements with glazing bars. The central doorway features a large wooden frame and a plank door, along with a 20th-century glazed porch. There is a one-bay extension set back on the left and a later lean-to on the right end, also clad in corrugated iron. At the rear, the cob is exposed, and there is a large wooden cyma-moulded mullion four-light window at the centre of the ground floor, which may have been re-set.

Inside, the first floor is supported by large unchamfered transverse joists, and the ground floor rooms are partly ceiled. The lower left room contains a large stone fireplace with a cambered chamfered bressumer that has run-out stops, along with an oven featuring an inserted clay oven and an iron door. The interior includes plastered stud partitions and chamfered doorframes with carpenter's mitres and hollow step stops leading from the kitchen to the entrance lobby and at the bottom of the stairs. The staircase leads directly into a large chamber on the right, which has a later partition. The two smaller chambers to the left retain their original partitions and also feature chamfered doorframes. The chambers are ceiled, and the roof is a four-bay structure with collar trusses, where the cambered collars are dovetail lap-jointed to the principals, along with trenched or threaded purlins.