Description

SEAVINGTON ST MARY CP UPTON LANE (East side)
ST41NW
SEAVINGTON ABBOTS
2/72 Upton House, and front boundary
railings
4.2.58

GV II

Detached farmhouse. Circa 1700. Modified and extended in C19. Ham stone near-ashlar; clay pantiled roof between stepped
coped gables; brick chimney sticks. Two storeys with attic; 7 bays, of which bays 1 to 3 are apparently later. Casement
windows with horizontal bars, 3-light to bay 1 and upper bays 2 and 3; below bays 2 and 3 a 4-light, thereafter all
2-light; continuous labels to both levels bays 4 to 7, the lower being stepped up over each opening: to lower bay 3 a
wide 6-panel door of Regency pattern hung in heavy frame, protected by an open timber porch with 2 rudimentary Doric
stone columns and a Welsh slated pitched roof. Further casements on south gable, the upper with hood and an iron-framed
opening light, also attic window with hood. Leanto extension at rear. Interior not seen. About 2 metres west of house,
with returns to porch and to south-west corner of house, a low stone kerb with cast-iron railings about one metre high
having acanthus bud tops, with arch-braced standards and matching side gates adjacent to porch, all adding to the
setting of the house and of the streetscene.

Listing NGR: ST4068215340

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26472435

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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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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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)