Foscott Manor

Foscott Manor is a large house, with a core dating to the mid-17th century, significantly restored and extended to the northwest in 1868 and 1908. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with stone dressings, and has an old tile roof with coped gables featuring ball finials and moulded kneelers. Brick chimney stacks, some with pilasters and offset heads, are prominent; thin brick defines the bases of two stacks in the southeastern block. The house is two storeys and has an attic.

The southeastern front has three gabled bays, articulated with two orders of fluted Doric pilasters, and features a restored low plinth, first-floor band course, and upper entablature. Stone mullion windows with cornices to the heads were altered in the early 20th century and now have transoms to both ground and first floors; the arrangement is four-light windows flanking a three-light window on the ground floor, and three-light flanking two-light on the first floor, with two-light windows in the attic. There are two carved stone heads in the attic above the central pilasters.

The northeastern front, restored and altered in the 19th century and partly ashlar, is three bays wide with similar windows, and has two 19th-century hipped dormers. A central, three-storey gabled projection has a rebuilt, Jacobean-style porch projecting to the ground floor, with a depressed moulded arch flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinths, supporting a triglyph and roundel entablature that breaks forward over the columns and has a keystone. Original obelisk finials are present. The right-hand bay projects to the ground floor. A service wing at a right angle has one-and-a-half storeys and two gabled bays with three-light stone mullion windows.

The interior staircase, dating from circa 1640, has a moulded handrail, a closed string, panelled newels with pierced pendants and elaborate finials, and turned balusters flanking pierced square panels.