Foxwarren Park

Foxwarren Park is a country house of 1860, designed by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich for Charles Buxton, who provided the designs. It is built in a harsh Victorian Gothic style. The building is constructed of polychrome brickwork, red with blue diapering, and features terracotta dressings. The roofs are plain-tiled with crow-stepped gables. The long, rambling plan is basically T-shaped, with gabled cross wings; a wing to the left end incorporates a fine clock tower attached to the rear. The house has two storeys and attics with decorative round and polygonal brick and terracotta stacks to the ridges and ends, including a diagonal gable squinch under a pyramidal roof with terracotta plaque decoration to the end on the left.

The entrance front has five crow-stepped gables with arched attic windows in terracotta surrounds, which have hood mouldings with quatrefoil openings in the gable apexes. The main windows are casements in moulded terracotta surrounds with decorative mullions and hood mouldings. An angle bay oriel is located to the left of centre on the first floor, and a two-storey square bay window is under a terracotta balustraded parapet to the right end. The central entrance gable projects slightly, featuring a massive first-floor window of six leaded, arched lights. A double panelled and arched door is set within a moulded, decorated surround below. The right-hand return front has two crow-stepped gables, with an angle bay rising through two storeys. The garden front features two crow-stepped gables to the left, flanking the entrance and incorporating two-storey angle bays with pierced terracotta balustrades. Arched windows are present on both floors, followed by two further gables to the right. A triple arched screen forms a porch recess between the gable bays, enclosed by a shallow, hip-roofed projecting through-eaves break. A glazed door is under a vaulted porch decorated with thin plasterwork. A single-storey, balustraded range connects to the fine clock tower at the right end, which sits on a square base with diagonal, panelled, and stepped buttresses to the corners. Above, the octagonal tower has brick broaches over a corbelled and decorated band. The two stages of the tower include a tall, two-light leaded window under a label moulding on two faces; the upper stage has a clock face on two faces, above a brick string course. A pierced brick and terracotta balustraded parapet and an open, octagonal, wooden cupola top the tower, under a turret roof and weathervane. An arched throughway leads to the ground floor, under a multiple moulded surround.