Listed buildings in Upton Magna explained

Upton Magna is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Upton Magna and is otherwise rural. The Shrewsbury Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal ran through the parish. It is now disused but three structures associated with it have been listed, namely a bridge and the entrances to a tunnel. In the village, most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures, the earliest of these are timber framed. Also in the village and listed are a church and items in the churchyard. Outside the village, the other listed buildings include farmhouses and associated structures, a house and cottages.

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GradeCriteria
II*Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
IIBuildings of national importance and special interest

Buildings

Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
St Lucia's Church
52.7081°N -2.6625°W
The tower was added in the 15th century, and the church was restored in 1860–61 by G. E. Street, who added the south porch, the north aisle and the vestry. It is built in sandstone with a tile roof, and consists of a nave with a south porch, a north aisle, a chancel and a vestry, and a west tower. The nave and chancel are in Norman style, and the tower is Perpendicular. The tower has two stages, diagonal buttresses, a semi-hexagonal stair turret, string courses with carved heads, a quatrefoil frieze with corner gargoyles, an embattled parapet, and a pyramidal cap with a weathervane.
Cruck Cottage
52.7087°N -2.6621°W

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