Foston Hall and Attached Archway With Wrought Iron Gates
FOSTON HALL AND ATTACHED ARCHWAY WITH WROUGHT IRON GATES, UTTOXETER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205231
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Foston Hall and Attached Archway With Wrought Iron Gates
- Statutory Address:
- FOSTON HALL AND ATTACHED ARCHWAY WITH WROUGHT IRON GATES, UTTOXETER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205231
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Foston Hall and Attached Archway With Wrought Iron Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOSTON HALL AND ATTACHED ARCHWAY WITH WROUGHT IRON GATES, UTTOXETER ROAD
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:
- FOSTON HALL AND ATTACHED ARCHWAY WITH WROUGHT IRON GATES, UTTOXETER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Foston and Scropton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 18580 31655
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82677
- 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.
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