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Summary

Former Dartington Hall School. The main, quadrangular block, was built in 1931-2. A separate gymnasium hall was built immediately to the south in 1933-4. This was subsequently linked the the main building by additional, post-war, buildings.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1219259: FOXHOLE, FORMER DARTINGTON HALL SCHOOL
• Listed Building (II) 1324961: GYMNASIUM IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF FOXHOLE SCHOOL

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX76SE/196

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• SCHOOL (Built, Early 20th Century - 1931 AD (Between) to 1932 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1938, 121NW. Revision of 1932-1933 with additions in 1938. Provisional Edition (Cartographic). SDV337452.

Marked as a Junior School.

Ordnance Survey, 2025, Mastermap 2025 (Cartographic). SDV366286.

Marked as Foxhole Centre.

Historic England, 2025, National Heritage List for England 2025, 1219259 (National Heritage List for England). SDV366287.

Foxhole, former Dartington Hall School. School 1931-2 by Oswald P Milne for Dartington Hall, Whitewash rendered brick. Delabole slate hipped roofs with low moulded parapets. Rendered axial stacks with cornices and low clay pots. Plan: Quadrangular plan with main entrance tower, dining hall and offices in front (N) range, school houses in long side ranges with class rooms at corners and assembly hall and flanking library and studio linked by open- air rooms and loggia at south end of the quadrangle. Neo-Georgian style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. North front 6:7:6 bays, centre set back with central tower with low diminishing top stages; clock face and doorway with ashlar architrave; 12-pane sashes, ground floor centre tall 15-pane sashes and those above with blind arches. Rear elevation of front range 1:1:5:1:1 windows with 2-storey canted bays to left and right. Long side ranges 1:2:10:2:1, end 2 bays break forward. Assembly hall at S end has 4 round clerestory windows and central clock on first floor and open loggia below with rectangular piers. Long ranges of sash windows on outer elevations. Interior: Assembly hall has stage, concealed ceiling lights and oak plywood lined walls. Dining hall has galleried corridor. Staircases with solid balustrades and moulded handrails. Integral furniture in children' rooms, library and classrooms and open-air rooms under loggia at south end. Note: Dartington was a progressive, liberal co-educational school. Foxhole was built as its junior school but was first used for senior children.
Date first listed: 26th April 1993

Historic England, 2025, The Dartington Hall Estate, Dartington, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV366569.

Notification that, as part of an Historic England Strategic Project Defined Area Survey (DAS) of the Dartington Hall Estate the entry for Foxhole School on the National Heritage List for England is being considered for amendment.

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