Kotrs on Upper Upham Manor-House* 85 



The room lighted by the bay-window to the left of the porch was 

 panelled about the time of Charles I. ; but retains the Elizabethan 

 fireplace of good design, the cornice of which is carried by a small 

 console bracket at each end. 



The Queen Anne staircase at the back of the hall is handsome 

 and is carried up to the second floor. It is constructed in pine, 

 which is so dark with age as to be scarcely distinguishable from 

 oak ; and instead of being solid the newels are framed together ; 

 all the terminals have disappeared. 



The large room over and of the same size as the hall, was the 

 withdrawing room, and still retains the original chimney-piece in 

 good preservation ; it has caryatide figures one on each side carrying 

 an entablature with ornate frieze ; round the opening is a band of 

 enrichment. 



Two other original fireplaces remain. That over the left apart- 

 ment from the hall is in good preservation ; it has pilasters on each 

 side supporting the entablature, the frieze of which was left in block 

 only ; that in the room behind the withdrawing room was somewhat 

 similar in character, but has been mostly covered up by a more 

 recent chimney-jamb. 



The original roof existing over the front part of the house is 

 tie-beamed and strutted ; the principals about 7ft. from the floor 

 are roughly hollowed out, evidently to receive the side coves 

 of a ceiling. As the main staircase came up to this floor 

 probably there was a long gallery from end to end of the roof, 

 lighted by dormer windows over the front — a not uncommon 

 arrangement in houses of this date. The roofs are now covered 

 with red plain-tiles, but have been altered in places, as originally 

 the back elevation of the house was finished with three gables in 

 place of the present hips. The bay windows in front probably were 

 also surmounted by gables. 



The present chimneys are not of the sixteenth century, but seem 

 to be of the time of Queen Anne, when so much other work was 

 done to the house. 



The back elevation is pierced by two rows of untransomed three- 

 light windows. The section of the mullions throughout both front 



