Upper Througham Farmhouse

Upper Througham Farmhouse is a large, detached farmhouse dating to the early 17th century, with alterations made in the early to mid-18th century, and further changes in the early 20th century and 1972. It is constructed of ashlar and random rubble limestone with ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof.

The building is two storeys with an attic and a cellar, incorporating a lower two-storey section to the east. The south side features a mixed pattern of windows. A parapet gable in ashlar is present to the left, containing two 20th-century restored 2-light chamfered mullioned casements on the ground floor, above a continuous drip course. A larger 2-light window is on the upper floor, along with a further 2-light window in the attic, both with hoodmoulds. The attic window has a single cavetto moulded mullion. A parapet-gabled porch with a chamfered door opening, featuring pointed stops and a hoodmould, is located to the right, with a single-light casement above. The range continues to the right, with the eaves raised in the 18th century, and later mullioned windows that have been restored and altered. Three ridge chimneys have moulded or chamfered caps. The lower section to the right dates from the mid to late 17th century and has a central parapet gable. The ground and upper floors feature 20th-century fenestration, with a 2-light attic window in the gable apex. An attached outbuilding has three rows of pigeon holes below the eaves. A parapet-gabled east end of a mid to late 17th-century addition features a chimney with paired shafts, and three rows of pigeon holes in the gable end of the outbuilding's east parapet, with a 20th-century 2-light casement on the upper floor. The north side has scattered window placement. A single parapet gable is present to the right, with single-window fenestration below; a 3-light window is on the ground floor below a continuous drip course, and a 2-light window is on the upper floor and in the attic – all with cavetto mullioned details and hoodmoulds. Three further upper floor 2-light casements with hoodmoulds are present, with one later casement inserted at a lower level. The roof eaves were raised to this part of the building, and a gabled dormer features a 2-light casement. A doorway has a plank door and a 2-light leaded light above, while a doorway to the left is now blocked. Two small cellar single-light windows and a later 2-light window have been inserted between them. Two 2-light casements are on the lower part of the range to the left, with a gabled roof dormer containing a leaded casement.

The interior features a Jacobean plaster ceiling in one room and an early 18th-century dog leg staircase with three turned balusters per tread, and a ramped moulded handrail. In the 17th century, Upper Througham was owned by the Smart family; the Jacobean ceiling bears some resemblance to that at Solomon’s Court. In 2016, dendrochronological analysis of a ceiling timber in a ground floor room indicated a felling date of 1534.