Foxlease

Foxlease is a medium-sized country house built in the late 18th century, with alterations in the 19th century and significant enlargements in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of stuccoed brick with a slate roof behind a parapet and features brick stacks. The early 20th-century additions are brick with tile-hung first floors and a plain tile roof.

The original part of the house is an L-shaped structure with three storeys and a seven-bay front, featuring two wide central bays. There is a two-storey, three-bay service wing extending from one end, and behind it is another two-storey, three-bay wing with full-height canted bays on its side and far end. The rear also includes a 20th-century section with two storeys, three gables, and further additions behind the service range.

The entrance front has a wide, four-column Doric porch at the centre, leading to central half-glazed double doors, with three-pane windows on each side. The left flanking bays have two-light casements, each with three panes, set in architraves with raised keys. Similar windows are found on the first floor and in the central bays. The second floor of both parts features four-pane windows in similar architraves. The right flanking bays have tall eight-pane sashes in architraves, with recessed blind openings on the first floor and two-light casements with three panes on the second floor. Each window has large hexagonal panes and smaller panes filling the edges. Above is a moulded cornice and a plain parapet with coping, and the roof is hipped with a large ridge stack just to the left of the centre part, a small stack to the right of it, and another stack over the right bays.

On the left side of the rear wing, there is a two-storey canted bay with a plinth, featuring a 12-pane sash window with pointed heads on the top panes, and two-light casements on the first floor of each face. The right end of the service range has tripartite sashes and a hipped roof. The interior boasts fine 18th-century features in Gothic style, along with some Adam ceilings.