FOXWARREN PARK

FOXWARREN PARK, REDHILL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1189110
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1981
List Entry Name:: FOXWARREN PARK
Statutory Address:: FOXWARREN PARK, REDHILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1189110
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1981
List Entry Name:: FOXWARREN PARK
Statutory Address 1:: FOXWARREN PARK, REDHILL ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FOXWARREN PARK, REDHILL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Wisley
National Grid Reference:: TQ 07942 59972

Details

TQ 05NE WISLEY C.P. REDHILL ROAD

2/265 Foxwarren Park 22/9/81 GV II*

Country house. 1860, by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich for Charles Buxton, who provided the designs, in harsh Victorian Gothic style. Polychrome brickwork, red with blue diapering, and terracotta dressings, renewed plain-tiled roofs with crow- stepped gables. Long rambling plan with gabled cross wings, basically T-shaped, wing to left end with fine clock tower attached to rear. Two storeys and attics with decorative round and polygonal brick and terracotta stacks to ridges and ends, diagonal gable squinch under pyramidal roof, with terracotta plaque decoration,to end left. Entrance front:- 5,crow-stepped gables with arched attic windows in terracotta surrounds under hood mouldings with quatrefoil openings in gable apexes above. Main fenestration of casements in moulded terracotta surrounds with decorative mullions and hood mouldings over. Angle bay oriel to left of centre on first floor, 2 storey square bay window under terracotta balustraded parapet to right end. Entrance gable to centre projecting slightly,with massive first floor window of 6, leaded, arched lights. Double panelled and arched doors in moulded decorated surround below. Right hand return front:- Two crow-stepped gables with angle bay rising through two storeys on left hand bay. Garden Front:- 2 crow stepped gables to left flanking entrance with two storey angle bays in front under pierced terracotta balustrades. Arched windows on both floors. Two latter gables to right. Triple arched screen to porch recess between gable bays under shallow hip roofed, projecting through-eaves break. Glazed door under vaulted porch decorated with thin plasterwork. Single storey balustraded range to right linking with fine clock tower to right end on square base with diagonal panelled and stepped buttresses to corners. Octagonal tower above with brick broaches over corbelled and decorated band. 2 stages, the tower containing a tall, 2-light leaded window under label moulding on two faces, the upper, over a brick string course, with a clock face on two faces. Pierced brick and terracotta balustraded parapet and open octagonal wooden cupola to top under turret roof and weathervane. Arched throughway to ground floor under multiple moulded surround.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) pp 246 & Addenda p.596-7.

Listing NGR: TQ0794259972

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 288847
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 246
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 596-7

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.