Foliejon Park

WINKFIELD

SU97SW DRIFT ROAD (OFF) 674-1/13/231 (South side) 07/12/66 Foliejohn Park (Formerly Listed as: WINKFIELD STREET Foleijohn Park)

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Large country house in parkland with lake. Late C18, alterd and extended C19, altered mid C20. MATERIALS: painted render, part slate hipped roof, part flat roof. PLAN: irregular plan with service wing on south-west. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with string at first floor level, heavy cornice with egg-and-dart enrichment and blocking course. Several chimneys with corniced heads and tall Doulton pots. Sash windows with glazing bars, moulded architraves and bracketed sills, some windows have moulded cornices and pediments. Entrance front, south-west, symmetrical. Centre section of 5-bays, prostyle Ionic porch enclosed C20 with glazed double door under round arch. Projecting wings form courtyard open on south-west, wing on left with splayed end, wing on right with flat end. Both wings have 4 windows to courtyard. INTERIOR: entrance hall with Ionic columns supporting dentilled entablature. Moulded skirting and dado rail. Moulded dentilled ceiling cornice, enriched with egg-and-dart ornament. Dog-leg staircase with barley sugar balusters and moulded handrail. First 10 treads of staircase have been altered to form curved approach to straight flight above. Panelled doorcase at each end of hall with moulded, eared architrave, frieze and pediment, all enriched with foliated, egg-and-dart, and bead and reel ornament. Marble chimneypiece with cast iron grate, engaged colonettes with entablature, egg-and-dart ornament and centre panel in plain frieze carved with Greek male head. Dining room: moulded skirting and dado rail, ceiling cornice similar to hall. Marble chimneypiece with cast iron grate, foliated console brackets, rose corner blocks and frieze, moulded mantelpiece. Sitting room similar but with grey and white mottled chimneypiece and hearth, with cast iron grate. Study and dining room similar with wooden chimneypiece, eared surrounds with black marble inset. A plaque in the hall states that "During the German occupation of Norway HM King Haakow VII resided in this house. March 1942-June 1945".