UPPERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ADJOINING TO SOUTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169444
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: UPPERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ADJOINING TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: UPPERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ADJOINING TO SOUTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169444
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: UPPERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ADJOINING TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: UPPERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ADJOINING TO SOUTH

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: UPPERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ADJOINING TO SOUTH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Drewsteignton
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX7641390313

Details

SX 79 SE DREWSTEIGNTON

6/68 Upperton Farmhouse including garden walls adjoining to south

II

Farmhouse. C16 with late C16 and C17 improvements, last major modernisation in late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone stacks with C19 brick tops; thatch roof Plan and development: L-shaped building. The long main block faces south and is built down a gentle slope. It has a 4-room-and-through-passage plan with a small unheated inner room uphill at the left (west) end. (It is the present kitchen). The hall has a large axial stack backing onto the passage and a newel stair turret projecting to rear towards the upper end. The 2 service end rooms have an axial stack between. A small unheated 1-room plan dairy projects forward at right angles in front of the inner room. Only limited internal access was available at the time of this survey and therefore it is not possible to outline the early development of the house here. Nevertheless it is obvious that the house began as some type of open hall house, probably in the early or mid C16 and maybe heated by an open hearth fire. The hall fireplace was probably inserted in the late C16 and the house progressively floored over. The 2 rooms of the service end were refurbished in the late C19 as the principal rooms and this end might have been extended. Secondary outshot to rear of the service end. Main block and dairy are 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 4-window front of late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. THe passage front doorway is roughly central and now contains a C20 door. The roof is half-hipped each end. The dairy block roof is lower and hipped. Interior: only limited internal access was available at the time of this survey. The hall has a probably late C16 granite ashlar fireplace with a soffit-chamfered and step-stopped oak lintel. There is evidence of a contemporary chamber over the passage which jettied into the lower end of the hall flush with the chimneybreast. At the upper end of the hall an oak plank-and-muntin screen has muntins chamfered with step stops on both sides. They are high enough to accommodate a bench below on the hall side. The inner room joists are also soffit-chamfered with step stops. The hall was floored in the early or mid C17 with an ovolo-moulded crossbeam with chamfer-step stops. The oak doorframe to the newel stair is-probably contemporary. It is ovolo-moulded with urn stops and contains an ancient plank door. The service end rooms are the result of their late C19 refurbishment and no earlier detail shows here. The roof was not available for inspection and no trusses are said to show. An early, maybe late medieval, roof is suspected. A narrow strip of front garden is bounded by a late C19 stone rubble wall. Upperton Farmhouse is an attractive farmhouse with little C20 modernisation. Many early features are probably hidden by C19 plaster.

Listing NGR: SX7641390313

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.