Foundation House

GISLINGHAM MILL STREET (SOUTH SIDE) TM 0771 6/42 Foundation House - GV II

School room and master's house, now a house. Mid C17, altered and extended early C19. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof, pantiles on additions. 3 bays, lobby entrance with end stack. 2 storeys and attic. Ground floor: plinth, to right a C19 part glazed and part raised 6 panelled door in a bargeboarded gabled porch, two 16-pane architraved sashes with hood moulds. First floor two 4:8 pane architraved sashes and an architraved dummy window over entrance. Internal stack at right end, rebuilt cap. Gable end attic 2- light casements. To rear a boarded door and an architraved door, mixed casements, on first floor a slightly projecting original ovolo mullioned 4- light window, 3 lattice leaded lights, 1 metal frame opening light. Attached to right end a 1 bay 1 storey C19 service addition, a 2-light casement with hood mould, further right a lower brick outbuilding. Interior: ground floor was school room, exposed studding, crossed ogee stop chamfered binding beams, lightly chamfered joists and mid-rail, 2 and 3-light ovolo mullioned window openings, early C19 stair in front of stack. First floor was master's rooms, straight arched bracing in walls, 3 and 4-light ovolo mullioned window openings with some intermediate small diamond mullions, collars and halved principals clasp purlins.

Listing NGR: TM0739871769