Foxwarren Park

TQ 05NE WISLEY C.P. REDHILL ROAD

2/265 Foxwarren Park 22/9/81 GV II*

Country house. 1860, by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich for Charles Buxton, who provided the designs, in harsh Victorian Gothic style. Polychrome brickwork, red with blue diapering, and terracotta dressings, renewed plain-tiled roofs with crow- stepped gables. Long rambling plan with gabled cross wings, basically T-shaped, wing to left end with fine clock tower attached to rear. Two storeys and attics with decorative round and polygonal brick and terracotta stacks to ridges and ends, diagonal gable squinch under pyramidal roof, with terracotta plaque decoration,to end left. Entrance front:- 5,crow-stepped gables with arched attic windows in terracotta surrounds under hood mouldings with quatrefoil openings in gable apexes above. Main fenestration of casements in moulded terracotta surrounds with decorative mullions and hood mouldings over. Angle bay oriel to left of centre on first floor, 2 storey square bay window under terracotta balustraded parapet to right end. Entrance gable to centre projecting slightly,with massive first floor window of 6, leaded, arched lights. Double panelled and arched doors in moulded decorated surround below. Right hand return front:- Two crow-stepped gables with angle bay rising through two storeys on left hand bay. Garden Front:- 2 crow stepped gables to left flanking entrance with two storey angle bays in front under pierced terracotta balustrades. Arched windows on both floors. Two latter gables to right. Triple arched screen to porch recess between gable bays under shallow hip roofed, projecting through-eaves break. Glazed door under vaulted porch decorated with thin plasterwork. Single storey balustraded range to right linking with fine clock tower to right end on square base with diagonal panelled and stepped buttresses to corners. Octagonal tower above with brick broaches over corbelled and decorated band. 2 stages, the tower containing a tall, 2-light leaded window under label moulding on two faces, the upper, over a brick string course, with a clock face on two faces. Pierced brick and terracotta balustraded parapet and open octagonal wooden cupola to top under turret roof and weathervane. Arched throughway to ground floor under multiple moulded surround.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) pp 246 & Addenda p.596-7.

Listing NGR: TQ0794259972