Foxhole, Former Dartington Hall School

Foxhole, formerly part of Dartington Hall School, is a school building constructed between 1931 and 1932 by architect Oswald P Milne for Dartington Hall. It features whitewash rendered brick and Delabole slate hipped roofs with low moulded parapets. The building has rendered axial stacks with cornices and low clay pots.

The design follows a quadrangular plan, with the main entrance tower, dining hall, and offices located in the northern range. The school houses are situated in the long side ranges, with classrooms at the corners and an assembly hall linked to a library and studio by open-air rooms and a loggia at the southern end of the quadrangle. The style is Neo-Georgian.

The exterior is two storeys tall with an attic. The north front has a symmetrical arrangement of 6:7:6 bays, with the centre set back and featuring a central tower topped with low diminishing stages, a clock face, and a doorway framed by an ashlar architrave. The ground floor has tall 15-pane sash windows in the centre, while the upper floor features 12-pane sashes with blind arches. The rear elevation of the front range has a window arrangement of 1:1:5:1:1, with two-storey canted bays on either side. The long side ranges have a window arrangement of 1:2:10:2:1, with the end two bays projecting forward. The assembly hall at the southern end includes four round clerestory windows and a central clock on the first floor, with an open loggia below supported by rectangular piers. The outer elevations have long ranges of sash windows.

Inside, the assembly hall features a stage, concealed ceiling lights, and oak plywood lined walls. The dining hall includes a galleried corridor. The staircases have solid balustrades and moulded handrails. There is integral furniture in the children's rooms, library, classrooms, and open-air rooms under the loggia at the southern end. Dartington was known as a progressive, liberal co-educational school, and Foxhole was originally built as its junior school but was first used for senior children.