Upton Court
UPTON COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167003
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Upton Court
- Statutory Address:
- UPTON COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167003
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Upton Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPTON COURT
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 COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Hereford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 55137 66027
Details
LITTLE HEREFORD CP SO 56 NE 5/44 Upton Court ll.6.59 II*
Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17 with later C17 additional wing, further alterations of early C18, minor C20 alterations. Diagonal and ornamental herringbone timber-framing with wattle-and-daub and painted brick infill, sandstone rubble plinth and stacks with brick shafts, main western stack has decorative shafts. South front refronted with brick, tiled roofs. Irregular half-H plan with through-passage and later wing added to eastern end, axial and lateral stacks, main entrance to north front through project- ing two-storey porch. Two storeys with attics and part cellar. North front: later wing to left with square panelled timber-framing and.largely refaced in brick to ground floor; two 2-light and one 3-light casement windows, one 3-light C20 window to ground floor to right of ledged door. Gable end of cross-wing to right formerly with jettied upper storey now underbuilt in brick, one 2-light and one 3-light casement window to upper floor and two similar casements to ground floor. Central hall range to right has projecting two-storey gabled porch with jettied upper storey on moulded bressummer, one 2-light casement window to upper floor, inner ledged door, hall to right has two 2-light casement windws to both floors. Gable end of western cross-wing to right with former jettied upper storey now underbuilt. One 3-light and one single-light casement window to upper floor, one 3-light window to ground floor. Interior retains mid-C17 panelling in a room in the east cross-wing. The hall has later C17 panelling with a painting over the fireplace of a house and garden, the south-west room also retains panelling of c1700 with a hunting scene over the fireplace. Late C17 west staircase has turned balusters and a moulded handrail. (RCHM, Vol 3, p 66).
Listing NGR: SO5513766027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150534
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 66
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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