Uphill Manor

Heritage listing

Details ST 35 NW UPHILL ROAD SOUTH Uphill 3/61 - II* Large house. Probably c1805, extended 1835 by Henry Rumley of Bristol for Thomas Knyfton, who bought the house in 1832 from a bankrupt Daniel Beaumont Payne; further extended and internally refurbished in 1855 as wedding present from Thomas Tutton Knyfton to his second wife, the interior designs being probably by JG Crace after Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Built of dressed and rubble limestone brought to course; ashlar quoins and dressings; slate roofs with crenellated parapets and octagonal ashlar stacks. PLAN: T-plan with rear service wing; the front (south) range has right-of-centre porch to stairhall flanked by library to right, dining room to far left and smoking room to centre; extensions of 1855 comprise rear octagonal-plan hall with doorways opening into drawing room projecting to rear right (east) and entrance hall and porch to rear; conservatory, also of c1855, placed at angle between library and drawing room. Picturesque Tudor Gothic style. EXTERIOR: viewed from the south, the composition is mostly of 2 storeys, with towers incorporating dining room to left and bedroom/services to far left; to the right the bay including the library has also been made into a tower, and a tall 3-storey octagonal tower is set over the octagonal hall. Tudor-arched doorway to crenellated porch, and stone-mullioned windows mostly with label moulds to 1:1:3:1 fenestration. Buttresses to library and dining room towers, and fine carved gargoyles to octagonal tower and associated stack. Conservatory and square bay (with quatrefoil-pierced parapet) lighting drawing room have Tudor-arched windows, the Decorated-style 3-light windows (one broken by arched doorway) to the rear porch ( with carved gargoyles to parapet) being of a more

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.