Foxcombe House
FOXCOMBE HOUSE, PETERSFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233324
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Foxcombe House
- Statutory Address:
- FOXCOMBE HOUSE, PETERSFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233324
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Foxcombe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOXCOMBE HOUSE, PETERSFIELD 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:
- FOXCOMBE HOUSE, PETERSFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harting
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 77105 18682
Details
In the entry for:
SU 71 NE HARTING PETERSFIELD ROAD 15/7 Foxcombe House II *
THE GRADE SHALL BE AMENDED TO II AND THE DESCRIPTION SHALL BE AMENDED TO READ:
House 1939. Galleted clunch with red brick dressings; plain tile roof. 2 storeys with attic, 5 x 3 bays. Brick plinth, plat band, eaves band and quoins at angles and to openings. Symmetrical facade. 5 stone steps up to part-glazed, small pane door in architrave with console-bracketed pediment; 8-pane sash sidelights. Above door and to outer bays, segmental-arched tripartite windows having 12-pane sashes to centre flanked by 4-pane sashes; 12-pane sashes to other bays. Parapet with brick-quoined recesses and stone coping. Mansard roof having 4 flat-roofed dormers with 12-pane sashes and a brick stack to each side of the roof. Returns: style continued from front, right return having 2 part-glazed doors and 2 dormers, left return having central panelled door and fanlight in architrave with console- bracketed canopy, left bay blind with blind 1st floor window opening and 1 dormer. Venetian window to rear. Interior: Curved stone stair with decorative iron railings; panelled doors, decorative fireplaces; cellars retain a fragment of C18 brickwork. History: this house was built on the site of Castle Farmhouse, which was built in 1786 for St Harry Fetherstonhaugh as an estate farmhouse to Up Park, and which was demolished in 1939 to be replaced by the present structure. It is reputed that some of the stone used in Castle Farmhouse came from an earlier house (Ladywell), and some of the stone in the present structure may be reused from Castle Farmhouse.
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SU 71 NE HARTING PETERSFIELD ROAD 15/7 Foxcombe House 18.6.59 II* House. Built for Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh in 1786. Clunch with red brick dressings, quoins and stringcourses. Parapet. Mansarded slate roof. Glazing bars intact. Doorway with pediment on south front. Venetian window on north front. Doorway on west front with pilasters, flat hood on brackets and semi-circular fan- light. Two storeys and attic. Five windows. Three dormers.
Listing NGR: SU7710518682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 301834
- 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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