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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 24 NE 143 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | UPTON COURT FARM |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1832. A 16th century timber-framed house, much restored and altered, especially during the 19th century.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2626 4772 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR24NE |
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| Parish: | SHEPHERDSWELL WITH COLDRED, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BUILDING (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1069989: UPTON COURT FARM AND UPTON COURT FARM COTTAGE |
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Full description
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Description from record TR 24 NE 1:
[TR 26304771] UPTON COURT [G.T.] (1) Upton Court, Sibbertswold - a timber-faced building with infilling of plaster, cement, and painted brick. Now a farmhouse. Grade III. (2) `Upton Court Farm' [TR 26274773] was `Upton Court' and is poor and uninteresting. It had been much restored and altered, leaving little of its original character. The name as applied on the 1/2.500 NSL, is to a group of farm buildings, none of which are of pre-C18th date. (3)
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 24 NE SHEPERDSWELL & COLDRED COLDRED ROAD (north side) 2/97 Upton Court Farm and Upton 25.7.80 Court Farm Cottage GV II House, now house pair. C16 extended and altered especially e.C19. Timber framed and rendered, with exposed frame to rear of large panels, with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys, with 3 right hand bays with continuous jetty, with hipped roof and stacks to left and to right. Six wooden casements on first floor, and wooden casement to left, central and end right glazing bar sashes and centre right large canted bay on ground floor. Half-glazed door to left and boarded door to right. Single storey extension to left with slate roof and wooden casement. Rear outshot of red and blue chequered brick. A manorial centre, gave rise to medieval Upton family, and home of Philipott family until t.HVII; "neatly fitted up in the cottage stile" in Hasted's time (vol. IX, c.1800).
Listing NGR: TR2626547725 (4)
<1> OS 25" 1957. (OS Card Reference). SKE48273.
<2> M.H.L.G. (2045/11/A. Sept. 196 1960) 21. (OS Card Reference). SKE46250.
<3> F1 ASP 24-APR-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42257.
<4> DOE(HHR) Dist of Dover Kent 1987 45 (OS Card Reference). SKE40959.
<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<5> Field report for monument TR 24 NE 1 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5643.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 25" 1957.. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: M.H.L.G. (2045/11/A. Sept. 196 1960) 21.. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 24-APR-64. |
| <4>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #25474 Listed Building, ] |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Dist of Dover Kent 1987 45. |
| <5> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 24 NE 1 - April, 1964. |
