Listed Building: UPLANDSIDE (286440)

CLOPTON MANOR ROAD TM 25 SW (West Side) 8/26 Uplandside 16/3/66 (formerly listed as Uplands Farmhouse) G.V. II House, formerly farmhouse. Early C16 restored with additions and alterations in the 1930s. Timber framed with colourwashed infill and a thatched roof. Two storeys. Three-cell plan. Entrance front: close studded walling, the sill plate having butt-ended joints. Arched brace to ground floor at right and further arched bracing to the first floor at right with two arched braces at left indicating a possible altered Wealden plan. To the ground floor at left of centre is a C20 doorway with a 4- centered arch and brattished bressumer above. To left of this are two 2- light windows with moulded mullions and to left again a 4-light and 3-light casement divided by a small single-light. To right of the door is a C20 oriel window of 4-lights with cavetto-moulded underbelly, moulded sill and brattished cresting. To right again is a 3-light window and at far right a T-shaped window with 4 central lights which fall low, flanked by 2-light upper windows. To the first floor at centre are two 4-light windows with moulded mullions and to left a 5-light window with a 2-light and a 4-light moulded mullion at right. To the ridge at right of centre is a chimney stack with 3 octagonal flues. Right hand end: ½-hipped roof. Close studding with arched braces to the first floor. Ground floor doorway at left and at right of this a 3-light and a single-light casements. The first floor has an 8-light window with central king mullion. The left hand gable end has a hipped roof and a small courtyard with an enclosing wall at ground floor level. Chimneystack at left with rectangular base and sawtoothed stacks. Rear: addition at right of c.1930 with French windows and arched braces brought in from a late-medieval house in Ipswich. The C16 body of the house at left of this has a projecting bay of 1930s build with close studding of planted timbers with a 5-light window at left, a 3- light window at right and between these an upper 5 lights. Eyebrow dormer above these of 5 lights. To left of this is close studded walling to both floors with an arched brace to the first floor at left. To the ground floor at left is a T-shaped window with 4 central lights and 2 upper lights at either side with, at right, a small window of 3 lights and at right again another 4-light window with lower sill and at far right a rectangular bay window with hipped roof of 1930s date with a brick plinth and 5 lights. The first floor has three 4-light eyebrow dormers, one similar 3-light window and a 2-light window set in the walling, all appearing to be of C20 date. Interior: Screens passage with timber screen which has chamfered muntins and plain boards and one 2-centered arched doorway. Richly-moulded ceiling beams and joists to the dining room. One further ground floor room with similar timber which appears to be mostly of 1930s date and another ground floor room with chamfered beams. Close studding to the first floor rooms with arched braces, a moulded purlin and massive arch brace connecting to a cambered tie beam. Despite a heavy restoration in the 1930s a large amount survives of this well-built substantial farmhouse. Listing NGR: TM2216753785