Upton House
UPTON HOUSE, BREWERY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319777
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Upton House
- Statutory Address:
- UPTON HOUSE, BREWERY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319777
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Upton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPTON HOUSE, BREWERY HILL
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, BREWERY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bitton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 69234 69930
Details
1. 5118 BITTON BREWERY HILL Upton Cheyney Upton House ST 6969 15/30 II GV 2. Front part rebuilt in 1857 in Tudor style, incorporating early C18 house. Two earlier gabled wings project to rear. Rubble with stone tiled roofs and pairs of diagonally set chimney stacks, the east chimney also has a gabled belfry. East front has 1857 gable end to left in slight break with moulded heads to irregular casement windows. Crenellated link to south front. Lower 2 storey rendered wing with coped verges and 2 ashlar chimneys with moulded stacks. Raised quoins, modillion cornice and blocking course. On first floor 2 segment headed glazing bar sashes in keyed architraves, one to ground floor right and a pair to left. South front 2 and a half storeys. Two projecting gables, centre recess for entrance with crenellated parapet and gabled dormers. Coped gables with saddlestones. Three bays, 2-light windows to attic, 3-light to outer first floor windows and 1-3-1 light crenellated bays to outer ground floor windows, all with moulded heads and transoms, upper floors with drips. Centre bay has angled first floor oriel bay with lozenge shaped label stops, crenellated parapet and foiled heads to transom lights, escutcheon below inscribed 'JP' over 1857. Entrance set in tripartite screen with headstops to label, and foil heads, centre has Tudor arch doorway with moulded panel door. North front has 2 projecting gables, on ground floor with 3-light mullion windows with drips, on first floor segment-headed glazing bar sashes in architraves with acanthus leaf keys; moulded plinth; wings linked by central porch, bracket cornice to doorway; oval keyed windows in gables. Single storey extension to north-east is mid-C19 with cell and warden's room (for manoriel court). Interior: rich Jacobean-style staircase with fret-carved newels with pierced finials and splat balusters, Tudor style fittings including elaborate ceiling cornices and fireplaces.
Listing NGR: ST6923469930
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 28515
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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