Upper House is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 August 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Upper House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-steel-cedar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Plan form of hall range (originally open to roof) with outer cross wings, gabled storeyed porch on north side, gabled staircase projection in rear angle. Two storeys, white-washed rubble walls (some repairs), slate roofs, projecting brick stack to hall range, plain bargeboards. Three-window east front with swept dormers and modern glazed door up steps.
Remarkable interior retains two-bay medieval hall with central base-cruck and spere-truss to cross passage. C17 floor and central chimney inserted. Exceptional detailing to truss blades with chamfered and checked angles, feathered and broach stops etc. Spectacular roof structure including cornice mouldings to arcade plates, curved windbraces, multiple dowels, arch-braces to cambered collars.
Medieval solar cross-range (now divided into two storeys) with cambered tie-beams and feathered stop chamfers. C17 post and panel screen at solar end of hall, C17 stairs added on south side with ball finial newels and turned balusters. Downhill east cross-range considerably rebuilt in C17 with chamfered beams and large open fireplace at north end. Eighteenth century wall-paintings against spere truss.
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