Froxmere Court

Froxmere Court is a large house dating from the mid-19th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings, limestone quoins, and plain tiled roofs. The house is built in a Jacobethan style with an asymmetrical design and a complex gabled roofline. Each gable features scalloped bargeboards projecting from corbels carved with human heads, and there are massive chimney stacks with grouped, ornately decorated shafts.

The south front elevation is composed of four gabled bays. The left bay has an external chimney with a moulded stone cornice at eaves level, from which rise three columnar shafts on octagonal bases; the outer ones are herringboned and the central one has a "woven" design. The second bay is a gabled two-storey porch wing, with a Tudor-moulded stone archway at ground floor, featuring glazed pointed archways with hood moulds, returns, and quadripartite vaulted ceiling. A Tudor-arched entrance door with side lights is also present. The upper storey of this bay projects slightly on a corbel table and includes a stone oriel window with a quatrefoil-traceried frieze, rectilinear tracery, pointed-arched lights, and an embattled parapet above a moulded stone cornice. The side walls have lancet windows with hood moulds. The third bay has a four-light window on each storey, also with hood moulds and returns, and a pointed-arched niche in the gable apex containing a carved woman's head and grotesque heads on the label stops. The fourth bay features two narrow, rectangular ground-floor windows with pointed-arched latticed casements, and a pointed-arched window with a moulded architrave and cross-casement above. A half-hipped gabled chimney projection intersects the roof pitch, featuring two short columnar shafts with an interlaced hexagonal design on octagonal bases.

The west elevation has a large external chimney with three star-shaped shafts and, to the right, a two-storey canted bay window. Inside, the drawing room to the rear left features an elaborately carved fireplace decorated with sea monsters, flanked by two herms in the form of wounded sailors. This house retains good quality and unusual features, particularly on the south front elevation, displaying considerable group value.