Upton House
UPTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1155320
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Upton House
- Statutory Address:
- UPTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1155320
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Upton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPTON HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- UPTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tetbury Upton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 88078 95288
Details
ST 89 NE TETBURY UPTON TETBURY UPTON VILLAGE
3/348 Upton House
6.9.54
GV II*
Large country house. 1752 for Nathaniel Cripps, possibly by John Strahan, or John Wood. Coursed rubble stone with south front faced in ashlar, Cotswold stone-slate roof, multiple stone stacks. Square with entrance on west side under late C19 porch with rusticated pilasters, and main front to south. Symmetrical design in Classical style. 3 storeys, 7 windows. Projecting moulded cornice with dentils, balustraded parapet, pediment with coat of arms in tympanum over 3 central projecting bays with 4 Ionic pilasters. Rusticated ground floor and quoin strips. Ground floor has central semi-circular headed doorway with pediment on brackets and double half-glazed doors and keystone and voussoirs, flanking 12-pane sashes on central projection and two 15-pane sashes to each side all with keystones and voussoirs. 1st floor has seven 12-pane sashes, each flanked with Ionic pilasters with cornice and pediment, (central pediment being segmental) and with balustraded apron. 2nd (attic) floor has 3 oval keyed oculi in centre with moulded architraves, and to each side 2 cambered head windows with keystone, impost blocks and moulded architrave. All with plain glass. Interior on south side: Central 2-storey saloon with very fine original plasterwork in Classical design with fluted Corinthian pilasters, pedimented doorcases, swags of fruit and flowers, Rococo panels and central fireplace with carved head in centre. Single storey room to each side, altered to left but intact to right with similar quality and style plasterwork. (David Verey, Buildings of England, Gloucestershire: the Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST8807895288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 128625
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire The Cotswolds, (1979)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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