Foscott Manor
FOSCOTT MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214950
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Foscott Manor
- Statutory Address:
- FOSCOTT MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214950
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Foscott Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOSCOTT MANOR
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:
- FOSCOTT MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Foscott
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7166835880
Details
SP 73 NW FOSCOTT
3/46 Foscott Manor
25/9/51
GV II
Large house, Mid C17 S.E. Block, much restored and extended to
N.W. 1868 and 1908 (rainwater heads). Coursed rubble stone with
stone dressings, old tile roof, coped gables with ball finials and
moulded kneelers. C19 brick chimney stacks with pilasters and off-
set heads, thin brick to base of two stacks in S.E. block. Two
storeys and attic. S.E. front: three gabled bays articulated with
two orders of C17 fluted Doric pilasters, and restored low plinth,
first floor band course and upper entablature. Stone mullion
leaded windows with cornices to heads, altered early C20, transomed
to ground and first floors: 4-light flanking 3-light to ground floor,
3-light flanking 2-light to first floor, 2-light to attic. Two
carved stone heads to attic above central pilasters. N.E. front
restored and altered C19, part ashlar : three bays, similar windows,
two C19 hipped dormers. Central bay has C17 three storey gabled
projection with rebuilt Jacobean-style porch projecting to ground
floor : depressed moulded arch flanked by engaged Doric columns
on plinths with triglyph and roundel entablature broken forward
over columns and keystone; original obelisk finials. Right-hand
bay projects to ground. Service wing at right-angles has
one-and-a-half storeys and two gabled bays with 3-light stone
mullion windows. Interior: staircase c.1640 has moulded handrail,
closed string, panelled newels with pierced pendants and elaborate
finials, and turned balusters flanking pierced square panels.
RCHM II p.116 MON 3
VCH IV p 170
Listing NGR: SP7166835880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399903
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 170
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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