West Foscote House

West Foscote House is an estate farmhouse built in 1850 by J. Thomson for J. Neeld of Grittleton. It is constructed of squared rubble stone with a barge boarded stone slate eaves roof and a ridge domed lantern. The house has two ridge stacks. The main façade is arranged with two storeys and a five-window range. It features flush quoins, a moulded band, and a front with four principal, barge-boarded gables and a small central gablet. The ground floor has small-paned, two-light long-mullion windows, and a central door recessed within a triangular, stone-slated porch with single columns and arches on each side. The first floor has a small, two-light window above the door, and four triangular oriels on curving brackets. The windows are small-paned casements with stone slate roofs. The central lantern is constructed of ashlar and features a square base, a circular sundial, and a plaque inscribed "Loyalty ever is the same / Whether it win or lose the game / True as the dial to the sun / Although it be not shin'd upon". Above the sundial is a bell stage, gabled and with open shafted arches on each face. The front of the lantern bears a shield inscribed ‘I.N.’, and the rear bears a shield marked 1850. It has a leaded dome with a vane. A north-east rear wing is half-hipped at each end and has a lean-to on the west side. The rear of the main range has a 20th-century extension, original two-light windows, and a ground floor triangular bay. A range of attached stalls behind the house are listed separately with the Barn at West Foscote Farm. West Foscote House is one of the most elaborate of the estate farms on the Grittleton estate, and is comparable to West Sevington Farm and Lanhill Farm, Chippenham Without C.P.