Foxwood Farmhouse Garden Wall And Gatepiers

Foxwood Farmhouse, along with its garden wall and gate piers, is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 17th century, with an 18th-century section. A datestone indicates that it was built by John and Ann Wright in 1762. The building is constructed of red Flemish bond brick and has a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has a roughly T-shaped plan, with the earlier 17th-century part forming the downstroke of the T.

The entrance front, which is from the 18th century, features three bays arranged symmetrically. The central ground floor door has a cambered head and keystone, situated in a slightly projecting gabled bay. This door is a 19th-century 4-panel half-glazed design with a wooden tympanum. On either side of the door are three-light 19th-century casements set in cambered-headed surrounds with keystones. The first floor has a similar arrangement of windows, with an oval stone plaque above the central window. To the left is an early 19th-century addition with three-light cambered-headed windows on both the ground and first floors, followed by a later 19th-century lean-to.

Attached to the front of the farmhouse is a garden wall that forms a roughly rectangular enclosure, approximately 3 feet high, topped with a cambered stone coping. Opposite the front door are stone gatepiers that are square in section, featuring chamfered plinths, beaded corners, and abacus capitals. The brick wall slopes up on either side of the gatepiers, which support urns with gadrooned lower bodies and gadrooned knop finials.

At the rear, the mid to late 17th-century wing adjoins the center of the 1762 addition and has a stone plinth. The right-hand side wall has six by three cells of small framing, which is partly damaged by fire in this century, with angle and tension braces in the left-hand corners. Inside the 17th-century wing, there are chamfered beams on the ground floor and one panel of wattle and daub on the first floor.