West Foscote House
WEST FOSCOTE HOUSE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022305
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West Foscote House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST FOSCOTE HOUSE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2000-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/02514/28
- Rights:
- © Mr Jeffery Bartlett. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022305
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West Foscote House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST FOSCOTE HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WEST FOSCOTE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grittleton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 85332 78911
Details
GRITTLETON WEST FOSCOTE
ST 87 NE
7/58 West Foscote House
GV II
Estate farmhouse, 1850 by J. Thomson for J. Neeld of Grittleton. Squared rubble stone with barge boarded stone slate eaves roof and ridge domed lantern. Two ridge stacks. Two storeys, 5-window range. Flush quoins, moulded band and front of four principal barge boarded gables and small centre gablet. Small-paned 2-light long-mullion ground floor windows and centre door in open triangular stone-slated porch with single column and arch each side. First floor has small 2-light window over door and four triangular oriels on curving brackets. Small-paned casements and stone slate roofs. Centre lantern is ashlar with square base, the front with circular sundial and plaque below inscribed 'Loyalty ever is the same / Whether it win or lose the game / True as the dial to the sun / Although it be not shin'd upon'. Above is bell- stage gabled and with open shafted arch each face. Front has shield inscribed I.N., rear shield marked 1850. Leaded dome with vane. North east rear wing, half-hipped each end and with west side lean-to. Rear of main range has a C20 extension, original 2- light windows and one ground floor triangular bay. Attached range of stalls behind are listed with Barn at West Foscote Farm (q.v.). With West Sevington Farm (q.v.) and Lanhill Farm, Chippenham Without C.P. one of the most elaborate of the estate farms of the Grittleton estate.
Listing NGR: ST8533278911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 26-Jun-2026 at 07:38:05.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.