Foulden Manse

Foulden Manse is a house dating from 1772, with extensions in 1813 and later alterations in 1841. It is an asymmetrical, two-story house with an attic, originally six bays, forming a near L-shape, with a gabled porch in the re-entrant angle facing the front. The main house is constructed of heavily-pointed sandstone rubble, with tooled sandstone dressings, some of which are droved. The walls have quoins, long and short surrounds to openings, flush cills, and ashlar wallhead pediments. An ancillary structure sits to the southeast.

The north (entrance) elevation features a gabled porch offset to the right of centre, with a timber-panelled door and a scroll-bracketed sandstone canopy. A single recessed window is situated at the first floor, offset to the left, while a wallhead pediment marks the single first-floor window offset to the right, dated 1841. A four-bay, M-gabled projection extends to the left, with a blocked doorway at ground level on the outer left side. Single windows are placed in the remaining bays on both floors. A single attic light is centred in the gablehead to the left, with a blocked single attic light centred in the gablehead to the right.

The east (side) elevation shows a gable end to the left with a boarded timber door at ground level, offset to the right. A later wing extends to the right, displaying a single window centred at ground level, with a wallhead pediment above a single window.

The south (rear) elevation comprises four bays, featuring a three-bay range on the left and a later wing on the right. A large single window is offset to the right of centre at ground level; single windows are in the remaining bays on the ground and first floors. Wallhead pediments are present above single windows in all bays at the first floor. A gabled, bipartite dormer is offset to the right of centre.

On the west (side) elevation, a gable end is visible to the right, featuring a single window at first floor, offset to the right of centre. A full-height projecting wing is recessed to the outer left. A single window is placed in the gabled porch in the re-entrant angle.

The house has predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with sandstone skews, some of which are sawtooth-coped. Corniced sandstone ridge and apex stacks rise above the roofline, topped with octagonal cans. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

The ancillary structure, previously stables and a carriage house, is a single-story building with an attic and a rectangular plan, situated on a sloping site with a lean-to addition to the outer right. It is built of heavily-pointed sandstone rubble with tooled pink sandstone dressings. The west (entrance) elevation has a boarded timber door to the outer left, a single window in the following bay with a gabled dormer breaking the eaves above (now blocked), then a further doorway to the right. A modern garage door is set in a square-headed opening off-centre, and a two-leaf boarded timber door is located in a large, segmental-arched opening to the right. A boarded timber door is present in the lean-to addition. The roof is of grey slate, with a piended design. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

Rubble-coped, rubble walls enclose the site to the south, incorporating a store within the wall on the east side. A tooled rubble wall with square coping encloses the site to the north. Square, obelisk-shaped gatepiers flank the vehicular and pedestrian entrance to the northeast, with a hooped iron pedestrian gate.