Description

BRIXHAM

SX95SW UPTON MANOR ROAD, Higher Brixham
1946-1/3/263 (South side (off))
18/10/49 Upton Manor and Upton Manor Wing
(Formerly Listed as:
UPTON MANOR ROAD, Higher Brixham
Upton Manor, The Drive)

GV II

Detached house, now sub-divided. Early/mid C19. Solid rendered
walls. Hipped slated roof; large flat-roofed, slate-hung
addition on top. Rendered chimney on left side wall; painted
brick chimney on right side wall. Cluster of 3 tall painted
brick chimneys on service wing.
Square double-depth plan with large stair hall occupying most
of the front; small room to left of it. 2 rooms of similar
proportions at rear. Long, low service wing to right. 2
storeys.
Main building 3 windows wide. Segmental-headed centre doorway
with inset doorcase (probably imported from another house):
plain Doric columns with entasis and 20 bases, entablature
with segmental pediment incorporating fanlight with radial
bars. Half-glazed C19 door with 2 moulded panels below and 4
glazed panes with margin-panes above. Ground-storey windows
have segmental arches with patterned architraves, the whole
set in a segmental-headed recess. Windows stretch down to
ground. 6 over 9 panes with margin panes, the upper sashes
having additional panes shaped to match the window heads.
Upper-storey windows flat-headed and set in shallow
flat-headed recesses; 3-paned sashes with margin panes. In
front of ground storey a wooden trellised verandah (probably
rebuilt in early C20); ogee profile roof with artificial
shaped slates; floor of coloured patterned tiles. Upper-storey
sill band with incised decoration matching ground-storey
architraves. Deep, flat eaves cornices with brackets. Left
side wall has a large, blind segmental headed panel in ground
storey, now partly obscured by a C20 garage and with a small
glazed door pierced in it. Wide oblong panel in upper storey,
its lower left corner cut into by an inserted window sill band
and eaves cornice as on front elevation.
Rear (garden) elevation matches that at front, but with a
window instead of the door. Service wing very plain, but
left-hand end has 3-paned French windows with margin panes.
Window above has 3-paned sashes with margin panes. Other
windows seen to have mostly wood casements. INTERIOR: Stair
hall has mahogany geometric staircase with narrow open well;
this square, lightly moulded balusters, column-newels, shaped
and carved stop ends, moulded nosings to treads. Left half of
hall has stone paving slabs; moulded cornice; panelled
shutters and 6-panelled doors, the shutters and some of the
doors with a raised moulding; C19/C20 carved wood
chimneypiece. The 3 main ground-floor rooms all have doors,
shutters and cornices like those in the hall. Left front room
has chimneypiece with imitation marbling; this was brought
from another house in late C20. The 2 rear rooms have C19/C20
carved wood chimneypieces. Left-hand ground-floor wing room
has early C19 moulded wood chimneypiece with small round
panels in the top corners. Upper floor is almost completely
fitted out with re-used raised-and-fielded, 1-fillet
ovolo-moulded panelling, bolection-moulded door frames.
The gate piers at the entrance to the drive are separately
listed (qv).
In 1850 this was Upton Lodge, the seat of GH Cutler Esq; iron
ore was then being mined on his estate. In 1822 Lysons
described it as the Manor of Upton, the property and residence
of George Cutler Esq; it had been bought by Montague Booth Esq
and in great part rebuilt.
(White W: Directory of Devonshire: Sheffield: 1850-: 424;
Lysons D & S: Magna Brittania, 6. Devonshire Pt 2: 1822-: 72).

Listing NGR: SX9221854813

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513405

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