Foscote House

Foscote House is a house dating to the mid-17th century, constructed of rubble stone with stone slate roofs. It has coped gables topped with ball finials and diagonally-shafted ashlar stacks. The house is two and a half storeys high and has a square plan, with a twin-gabled front featuring ovolo-moulded mullion windows, hoodmoulds, and relieving arches. The front features a central door within a moulded four-centred stone surround, set within a mid-19th century stone porch with a lean-to front gable and a depressed-arched entry. Four-light windows with a king mullion are present on the ground floor, three-light windows on the first floor, and two-light windows in the attic.

To the east is a two-storey, single-window range with three-light windows on each floor, all with hoodmoulds. This range appears to be a 19th-century addition to what was originally a single-story section. The west front is gabled to the left with matching fenestration to the main front, and a wing to the right has a large four-shaft ridge stack and a ball finial to its south gable. A four-light window is on the ground floor, and a three-light window above. The south end gable has similar fenestration, but the ground floor window has been altered with 20th-century glazed doors. To the right, a wing extends with a coped east gable; on the south ground floor there’s a two-light window, on the first floor a three-light window, and a hipped dormer in the attic. An added wing to the east, with an east end stack, has a roof carried down low on the south front.

Inside, there are three Tudor-arched moulded stone fireplaces in the west rooms—two on the ground floor and one on the first floor. In the 19th century, the house served as the agent’s house for the Grittleton estate.