Description

TL 79 NE
4/7

FOULDEN
Foulden Hall

9.7.51

- II

House. Late C16 and later.
Brick, formerly timber framed, with plain tile roofs. Single pile with a Victorian double pile extension to rear. 2 storeys with attics. Facade Victorian with canted 2-storey porch and 2 other canted bays of single and 2 storeys. Sash windows with single vertical glazing bars beneath skewback arches. Moulded cornice and low parapet. 2 gabled dormers. Gable-ends in early brickwork laid in English bond. External stacks gaining width on to moulded brick corbelling at gable level. Both stacks with 4 octagonal shafts. 2 original window reveals with rectangular brick hood moulds survive to southern end. External stack to rear of main block with 4 rebuilt octagonal shafts (now obscured by Victorian extension). Off-centre axial stack probably modern with 2 octagonal shafts. C20 extension to north.
Original collar and butt purlin roof with wind bracing. Fine late C16 stair with turned balusters and newel posts with pierced knobs. (Believed to have come from Didlington Hall). Fragments of timber frame survive.

Listing NGR: TL7685898625

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26466641

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)