Upper House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 February 1993. House.
Upper House
- WRENN ID
- night-wall-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Upper House, Evenjob, Old Radnor
- OS grid reference
- SO 265 624
- Coordinates
- 52.25496, -3.07777
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Upper House is a two-storey building with a U-shaped plan, featuring crosswings that were built at different times. The right-hand wing is likely the original part and has a hipped roof at the rear. A single-storey lean-to extends along the length of the rear wall. The front elevation is rendered, while the rear is made of coursed rubble with a rubble plinth. The roofs are covered with slate. There is a brick ridge stack located to the left of the center and a projecting rubble stack with offsets and a brick upper on the right-hand wing's side wall.
The entrance features a six-panel door with a transom light, located to the right of the central range, along with an open timber porch that has a slate roof. The front has modern casement windows and a modern glazed door at the left-hand wing end. The side windows are small-paned casements set under cambered voussoir lintels. The rear lean-to includes 19th-century boarded doors and small-paned casements.
The building has not been fully inspected, but some timber-framing is exposed. The central room showcases a bressummer wall-framing and a chequerboard arrangement of very deep chamfered beams with pyramid stops. The left-hand wing features narrow chamfered beams and exposed joists. There is a rear dog-leg staircase in this wing, which has wavy pattern splat balusters and a squared newel with corner mouldings. Additionally, there is a two-panel, raised and fielded door in the right-hand wing. The ridge stack has a massive rubble base.
Local climate
Upper House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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