Description

SY 59 SW LODERS UPLODERS

3/198 Upton Manor
7-8-52 Farmhouse

GV II*

Detached Farmhouse. C16, with a rebuilt lower end (byre) dated
I K 1655 at rear, and with an early C18 extension at upper end.
Coursed rubble-stone walls, with dressed stone walls at right hand.
Thatch roof, with stone gable-copings, the lower end with ovolo
kneelers, the upper end with hollow-chamfered kneelers. Brick
stack at left hand gable, and left of centre, backing on to cross-
passage. Stone stack with moulded cornice at right hand gable,
early C18. 1½ - 2 storeys. 5 windows, 2- and 3-light wooden
casements with glazing-bars, 4-light to hall. Wooden cills and
lintels. Left hand window has a stone frame and returned label
over, Cl7. First floor window at upper end with stone-moulded jamb,
C18. Doors: C20 door into lower end, new opening; cross-passage
door blocked. Door, right of centre, plank with 6 glass lights,
C20. Wooden lintel. Lower end, rear elevation, stone mullions
(ovolos) to ground and first floor windows, 4-light and 3-light.
Datestone has lead letters and numbers. Large stone gabled-coping
over with kneelers. Rear service range, C17 with an C18 extension.
Same materials. Brick stacks on ridge, from major kitchen fireplace.
1½ storeys. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows. Straight joint marks
the extension. Plank door on south side in the angle. Stable-door
to the extension. Interior: 5 jointed-cruck trusses based on a
sleeper wall, 2 collared Jointed-cruck construction in the rear
service range. Hall ceiling in 9 compartments, with moulded ceiling
beams,- and wall beams intact, Cl6. Plank-and-muntin screen of Cl6
date with large straight chamfer. Top and base plates mainly intact.
Service-range has mid-chamfered ceiling-beams with run-out stops.
Large open fireplace with chamfered wood lintel. Bread oven removed.
c.ll foot width.
RCHM Dorset I, p 140 (15).

Listing NGR: SY5113193530

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542936

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)