Foxwarren Cottage

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TQ 05 NE 374-/7/10014

COBHAM REDHILL ROAD (south side) Foxwarren Cottage

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Estate cottage. c1860 with late C20 additions. By and for Charles Buxton, supervising architect F. Barnes. Red brick in header bond with contrasting black brick headers forming diaper pattern; moulded terracotta dressings. Plain tile roof with decorative bands of pointed and fishscale tiles and crested ridge tiles. In Jacobethan style having chamfered plinth; pointed arched entrance; windows with moulded mullions, segmental-headed lights, vertical glazing bars, some diagonally-leaded lights, and hoodmoulds with decorative stops; brick corbels below cogged eaves; steeply-pitched gables with gableted crowsteps; large central chimney with cogged band below six clustered octagonal flues with cornices and replacement terracotta pots. The additions are in matching style. Irregular plan of one storey with attic. Entrance (south) elevation of two bays. Left-hand bay has porch on left and three-light window with two-light gabled dormer over; the porch and dormer have cusped bargeboards. On right is projecting gabled bay with a four-light window to ground floor, two-light window above, and quatrefoil in gable. Onright of this projecting bay, in angle with spine range is added porch.

Rear: as front, but the "porch" on left instead of a door has a pointed arched recess containing blind, stepped slits. Attached to right end is low single-storey L-shaped range (which returns parallel to the cottage). Right return: six-light window with three-light window above and quatrefoil to gable. The added porch has a decorative iron gate. Left return: on ground floor, corbelled hipped-roofed four-light oriel window with two-light window above and quatrefoil in gable. Late C20 single-storey addition adjoins cottage on left.

Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ0834559860