Foundation House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House.
Foundation House
- WRENN ID
- pale-trefoil-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foundation House is a mid-17th century building that originally served as a school room and master's house, but is now a private residence. It has been altered and extended in the early 19th century. The structure features a timber frame with a plastered exterior and a thatched roof, with pantiles on the additions. The house is composed of three bays and has a lobby entrance with an end stack, standing two storeys tall with an attic.
On the ground floor, there is a plinth, and to the right is a 19th-century door that is part glazed and part raised, set within a bargeboarded gabled porch. This is accompanied by two 16-pane sash windows with architraves and hood moulds. The first floor contains two 4:8 pane sash windows with architraves, along with an architraved dummy window above the entrance. There is an internal stack at the right end with a rebuilt cap, and the gable end attic features two-light casements. At the rear, there is a boarded door and an architraved door, with mixed casements. The first floor has a slightly projecting original ovolo mullioned four-light window, which includes three lattice leaded lights and one metal frame opening light.
Attached to the right end is a single-bay, one-storey 19th-century service addition that has a two-light casement with a hood mould, and further to the right is a lower brick outbuilding. Inside, the ground floor was used as the school room and features exposed studding, crossed ogee stop-chamfered binding beams, lightly chamfered joists, and a mid-rail. There are also two and three-light ovolo mullioned window openings, and an early 19th-century stair located in front of the stack. The first floor was used as the master's rooms, showcasing straight arched bracing in the walls, along with three and four-light ovolo mullioned window openings that include some intermediate small diamond mullions, collars, and halved principals clasping purlins.
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