Upleadon Court

SO 72 NE UPLEADON -

4/269 Upleadon Court

GV II

Farmhouse: C17, C18. Main part English-bond brickwork, on part brick, part random rubble stone plinth (but exposed only at left end). To right brick-nogged timber-frame, part rebuilt brick on random-rubble stone right return. Tiled roof, part of rear slope stone slate. L-plan: one-room deep, 3-room, 2-storey and attics main block, with gabled 2-storey section on right forming return leg. Entrance front facing church: to left 3-light C20 casement window in bottom part of dummy opening, cambered brick arch over. To right flat-roofed, canted single-storey bay, sash window, cambered brick arch over in main wail: above on main wall outline of wide gable. To right 6-panel front door up 3 stone steps; top panels glazed: flat porch with moulded edge above, on brackets. Similar bay to right, without gable outline: cambered head to barred cellar opening below. First floor, plain brick string course: dummy opening with cambered brick arch on left; 3-light casement windows over bays, iron-opening lights, cambered brick arches: 2-light similar over door. Hipped roof, 4 hipped dormers from eaves, with 2-light casements. Small brick stack towards rear of left end, 2 large ridge chimneys, each to left of a bay window. To right timber-framed gable, 2-panels high per floor, eaves much lower than main block: cambered head to barred cellar opening below sill on left: canted, flat-roofed single-storey bay slightly left of centre, 2-light casement. To right end of brick casing to ground floor on right return, tiled top. First floor thin intermediate stud to some panels: 3-light casement in centre, tie beam to jettied gable over partly cut away for window head. Curved brace to wall plate on right, some curved. formers for coved jetty. Ends of ceiling beams show in brick nogging; 2 pairs purlins. Two external brick chimneys on right return: rear of wing rebuilt in brick. Interior cross passage from front door, 2- panel door to room on right, 2-panel doors to cupboards. Panelled shutters and panelling below bay windows in rooms left and right. Subsidiary stair only in brick section, originally off room to left of entrance behind chimney: main stair in timber-framed wing with heavy handrail. Deep chamfer to ceiling beams in front room same wing. Said to have been largely rebuilt following a fire. Forms group with church and 2 barns, (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7687626894