Foxgrove

NZ 10 NW NEWSHAM MOOR LANE (north side, off)

5/99 Foxgrove

• II

House with flanking service ranges, now house. Probably a C17 longhouse, the house refronted in the mid C18, and with later alterations. Dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings, and rubble, with clay pantile and concrete interlocking tile roofs. 2 storeys. Original house: 3 bays. Ashlar plinth and chamfered rusticated quoins. Central flat-roofed porch of c1955, with 9-pane fixed-light window in chamfered rusticated quoined surround, probably formed from original main entrance doorway; present entrance in right return of porch. 16-pane sash windows in chamfered rusticated quoined surrounds, the lintels monolithic and dressed as if of voussoirs; the central first- floor window blind. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. End stacks. To left, range of rubble, with clay pantile roof, and 2 first-floor windows. C20 casement windows, one with C17 cornice. To right, former stable, not of special interest. Rear, main house: 24-pane square-headed landing window in ashlar surround and with crown glass. Interior, main house: in ground-floor room to left, C18 ashlar fireplace surround with pulvinated frieze and cornice; in first-floor room to left, mid C18 fireplace with stone cheeks and wrought-iron bars in moulded ashlar surround with pulvinated frieze and cornice, upper part of stone dogleg staircase. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 694.

Listing NGR: NZ1024709880