Foulden Hall

Foulden Hall is a house dating to the late 16th century, with later additions. It was originally constructed with timber framing, now largely replaced by brick, and has plain tile roofs. The house is single pile, with a Victorian double pile extension to the rear. It has two storeys and attics. The facade was remodelled in the Victorian period, featuring a two-storey canted porch and two further canted bays of single and two storeys. The windows are sash windows with single vertical glazing bars set beneath skewback arches. A moulded cornice runs along the top of the front, topped by a low parapet. There are two gabled dormers. The gable ends are in early brickwork laid in English bond. External brick stacks widen outwards, with moulded brick corbelling at gable level, and each has four octagonal shafts. Two original window reveals with rectangular brick hood moulds survive at the southern end. An external stack to the rear of the main block has four rebuilt octagonal shafts, now partly hidden by the Victorian extension. A more recently constructed axial stack with two octagonal shafts is positioned off-centre to the rear. A 20th-century extension exists to the north. The original roof structure includes collar and butt purlin framing with wind bracing. Inside, a fine late 16th-century staircase with turned balusters and newel posts with pierced knobs is present, believed to have originated from Didlington Hall. Fragments of the original timber frame remain.