Description

SK 13 SE PARISH OF FOSTON & SCROPTON UTTOXETER ROAD
2/23 (South Side)
2.9.52 Foston Hall &
attached
archway
with wrought
iron gates

GV II

Country house, now HM Detention Centre. 1863 by T C Hine in
Jacobethan Style. Red brick with blue brick diaper work. Stone
dressings. Plain tile roofs with stone coped gables and
parapets and moulded kneelers. Prominent brick stacks with
octagonal shafts in groups of two, three and four. Flush stone
quoins and moulded stone bands. Two storeys with a three storey
tower. Asymmetrical plan. Asymmetrical west elevation of eight
bays. Off-centre tower with French Second Empire Style roof
with ironwork cresting and weather vane. Flanked by triple
stacks. Round-arched entrance with C19 panelled doors, flanked
by tall narrow windows, all enclosed within a tripartite
arrangement of Tuscan pilasters. Tripartite window above, and
above again. Venetian type window above in a shaped gable. To
the right, a single window and a small canted bay. Two similar
plain sashes above. To the right again, an external stack
rising to four shafts. To the left of the tower a narrow slit
window and a larger canted bay. Two sashes above in gabled half
dormers. Projecting gabled bay to left has large tripartite
window to ground floor and Venetian type window above. Broad
two bays to left with curved parapet, rising to a shaped gable.
Ground floor has a sash, a round-arched porch entrance and two
C20 windows. Two plain sashes above. All the windows have
moulded stone surrounds. Symmetrical six bay south elevation.
The centre part has four tall sashes to ground floor and four
smaller sashes above. Projecting end bays have shaped gables
and two storey canted bay windows. Attached to the north west
corner is a mid C18 archway (from the previous house).
Rusticated ashlar front, brick behind. Fluted capitals, and
pediment. C18 wrought iron gates, probably not originally for
this arch. The interior of the house has a Minton tiled
entrance hall and a small marble bolection moulded fireplace
with Delft Style tiles. Impressive staircase hall with stone
staircase around three sides, arcaded beneath with round arches
and naturalistic carving. Stone balustrade with a turned
polished crinoidal limestone handrail. Main rooms have moulded
cornices. Study has dentil cornice and early C18 Style chimney
piece. Marble surround and panelled wood overmantle with broken
pediment enclosing an urn and foliage. Grinling Gibbons Style
ceiling and carved wooden chimney piece. The room at the south
east corner has late C18 Style plaster panelling and white
marble chimney piece.

Listing NGR: SK1858031655

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500594

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record