The house called The Fosse, in Hereford, was built at a time when the comfortable and well-handled Georgian architecture was about to adopt some of the features that ultimately characterised Victorian architecture. Here we see an unusual pattern in the leading of the windows, elongated chimney stacks with chimney breasts featuring on the main elevation, a "squeezed" staircase tower with an inaccessible balcony above the front door, a first floor conservatory with a Dutch gable above, and pierced obelisks on the columns of the garden boundary. The house is thought to be the work of Robert Smirke and its date, 1825, is contained in a panel below the twin chimneys.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Sony DSC-RX100
