Foxtownsend Farmhouse Foxtownsend Flat

This is an early 17th-century farmhouse, later altered and extended in the 18th century, and now a house with a separate flat. It is constructed of limestone rubble with squared quoins and wooden lintels, and has Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs. The building has an L-shaped plan with additional wings. The main front has two storeys plus an attic and is two windows wide, with a central doorway flanked by tripartite sash windows, and 12-pane sashes at the first floor. The right gable features a leaded attic casement. The roof is punctuated by rubble stacks to both gables. A lower, 18th-century service range is attached to the right, featuring a slate roof and two-light casements. A rear wing, as tall as the main range, returns to the left, with a deep plinth, a stone gable parapet to the rear, and a further gable facing left from which a large rubble stack rises. Internally, there is a wide, ovolo-moulded, four-centre arched stone fireplace with a rectangular surround, a fine oak dog-leg staircase rising to the attics, complete with a moulded handrail, heavy turned balusters, and ball finials, and intersecting beams.