Foxhall

Foxhall is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, which was refronted and extended in the mid 19th century. The house has a timber frame with red brick stacks, now clad in gault brick and rendered, with a tiled roof featuring a slate front pitch. It comprises three bays with a rear staircase wing. The house is two storeys high. The central entrance has an architrave and a projecting hood supported by iron colonnettes with decorative brackets. Sixteen-pane sash windows are set in reveals on both the ground and first floors. A panelled eaves soffit is supported by brackets. The 19th-century refronting extends to the outer planes of the originally external 17th-century end stacks, which have been rebuilt with offsets and caps. A small first-floor window with an original chamfered frame is located to the rear of the left-hand stack. The front ridge has a shallow pitch, while the rear has a steep pitch with exposed purlins. The staircase wing projects behind the central bay and has a sash window and a steeply pitched roof with an exposed wall plate and purlins. A three-bay 19th-century wing extends to the rear left, incorporating an entrance, sashes and a ridge stack. Inside, a reset early 18th-century round-headed doorcase with fluted pilasters is located at the end of the entrance hall. An early 17th-century open-well staircase, with square balusters featuring lozenge decoration, a moulded handrail, and ogee-headed caps to the newel posts, has been reset in the rear wing. Some exposed framing is visible. A 20th-century addition to the rear right is not of special interest. Group value is present due to the building’s contribution to the surrounding area.