Summary
A garden house of about 1900 built for Joseph Lucas.
Description
A garden house of about 1900 built for Joseph Lucas.
MATERIALS: brick in either Flemish or stretcher bond with some terracotta decoration, wooden bracket cornice, window and door surrounds and hipped plain-tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles.
PLAN: rectangular with central entrance and seating along rear wall.
EXTERIOR: the entrance front has a central open doorcase with two tier pilasters, the upper bulbous and partly fluted, the lower fluted flanked by openings with segmental heads. The other elevations are plain brickwork.
INTERIOR: the inside walls are lined in brick in stretcher bond with a terracotta ovolo-moulded cornice and a boarded wooden ceiling. The rear wall has a rectangular panel in three sections with floral motifs, and a fixed wooden bench on chamfered supports.
History
Garden building, built around 1900, part of the Foxhunt Manor estate. The main house, Foxhunt Manor was built in 1898 for a builder and Congregational Minister, Joseph Lucas JP.
Reasons for Listing
The garden house at Foxhunt Manor, of about 1900, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as an unaltered garden building designed in the same style and materials as the main house.
Group value:
* as part of a group of contemporary structures of the same date and style on the Foxhunt Estate.
External Links
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Recommended Books
Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)