Upton Grove

Upton Grove is a large country house, originally built around 1680 for Samuel Saunders. A south-west range was added around 1790 by Thomas Saunders, with further ranges added in the late 19th century. The house is constructed of rubble stone, partly coursed with flush quoins, and has a Cotswold stone-slate roof with multiple stone stacks. The building has a complex plan, consisting of two gabled ranges to the north and a long range stretching across the south. It is mainly two storeys in height. The south-west wing features coped gables with cross finials, a parapet wall with vestigial castellations, and a central canted bay with elaborate tracery in a Geometric style. The first floor has a single two-light leaded casement with flanking slit windows on each side, while the ground floor contains two two-light mullion and transom stone windows. The south wing, dating from the 19th century, is in a 17th-century style, with a projecting gable to the right and two flush gables to the left. The first floor has six stone mullion windows of differing sizes under a continuous dripmould, and the ground floor has mullion and transom windows. Some original beams remain in the oldest section of the interior.