Fountain Court is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1999. Country house. 4 related planning applications.
Fountain Court
- WRENN ID
- moated-baluster-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1999
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Fountain Court, Bramshaw, SO43 7JB
- OS grid reference
- SU 268 146
- Coordinates
- 50.93111, -1.61947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fountain Court is a country house built in 1916, likely designed by G. Kitchen for Sir George Thursby. The building features painted brick, tile-hanging, and some timber-framing, topped with a clay plain tile hipped roof and brick axial stacks. The layout consists of a long asymmetrical range with an entrance stair hall at the center of the northwest front, principal rooms facing the south garden front, and a service wing to the northeast.
The exterior is two storeys with an attic. The northwest entrance front is asymmetrical, with the roof sloping down over a porch situated between two hipped roof wings. The right wing has a large timber mullion-transom stair window, while the first floor features close-studded timber-framing on both sides. The projecting hipped roof flanking wings include a timber gallery on the right, and there is a service wing extending to the left, along with small hipped dormers.
The southeast garden front has two hipped roof wings, with two 2-storey square bay windows between them, featuring tile-hung first floors and braced eaves. To the right, there is a large 2-storey canted bay window with a hipped roof, and a service wing set back on the right includes a late 20th-century conservatory in the angle. The southwest end has two 2-storey square bay windows with a 2-bay loggia in between. The windows are framed with heavy oak mullion-transom frames and leaded pane casements, and both the plank doors and some windows have red tile relieving arches.
Inside, there are plank doors with wrought-iron hinges, latches, and locks, as well as an open-well oak staircase with turned balusters and large square newels. The interior was re-fitted in the late 20th century with panelling, cupboards, and chimneypieces.
Local climate
Fountain Court receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Radon risk assessment
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