Foxhole, Former Dartington Hall School

DARTINGTON SX7862 Foxhole, former Dartington Hall School 12/491 II

School 1931-2 by Oswald P Milne for Dartington Hall, Whitewash rendered brick. Delabole slate hipped roofs with low moulded parapets. Rendered axial stacks with cornices and low clay pots. Plan: Quadrangular plan with main entrance tower, dining hall and offices in front (N) range, school houses in long side ranges with class rooms at corners and assembly hall and flanking library and studio linked by open- air rooms and loggia at south end of the quadrangle. Neo-Georgian style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. North front 6:7:6 bays, centre set back with central tower with low diminishing top stages; clock face and doorway with ashlar architrave; 12-pane sashes, ground floor centre tall 15-pane sashes and those above with blind arches. Rear elevation of front range 1:1:5:1:1 windows with 2-storey canted bays to left and right. Long side ranges 1:2:10:2:1, end 2 bays break forward. Assembly hall at S end has 4 round clerestory windows and central clock on first floor and open loggia below with rectangular piers. Long ranges of sash windows on outer elevations. Interior: Assembly hall has stage, concealed ceiling lights and oak plywood lined walls. Dining hall has galleried corridor. Staircases with solid balustrades and moulded handrails. Integral furniture in children' rooms, library and classrooms and open-air rooms under loggia at south end. Note: Dartington was a progressive, liberal co-educational school. Foxhole was built as its junior school but was first used for senior children.

Listing NGR: SX7908662360