On 19 November 2024, Foxie's Future completed their purchase and is currently in the process of improvements at the site with a view to reopening it in 2025.

It was opened in 2005 by The Countess of Wessex, then President of Girlguiding[3] The Coach house is a listed building, constructed in the 18th century.

Early photos show a thatched roof, but this barn was burnt down in 1958 and has since been replaced with a modern building.

There are several campsites at Foxlease, including Cedars, Katherine Wilson, Birches, Appletree and Bridges.

[5] About 1770 the owner was Sir Phillip Jennings-Clarke, MP for Totnes, who re-built Foxlease, but retained part of the old Tudor building.

[6] By 1775 the house stood completed, changed from a keeper's lodge into a mansion, not too large for comfort, with wide casement windows and two wings stretching westward with a cobbled yard in between.

[11] Some time after the marriage in 1906 of Armar Dayrolles Saunderson from Ireland to the American Anne Mills Archbold, they bought Foxlease.

Hampshire Girl Guides asked for and received permission to camp there and several training weeks were held there during 1921.

In January 1922, upon her divorce, Anne Saunderson née Archbold, now the owner of Foxlease, fled the country with their children, wishing to sever all ties with Britain lest her husband obtain custody of their children,[12] so she wrote to the Executive Committee of the Girl Guides Association, offering to give them the house and 60 acres (240,000 m2) to be a training centre for Guiders.

Despite the suitability of the property and the need for such a venue, the committee's considered opinion was that the Guides did not have sufficient resources for the upkeep and it would not be wise to accept the gift.

The offer coincided with the preparations for the marriage of Princess Mary, who was the very active President of the Girl Guides Association.

Lady Trefusis was on the committee of a fund to which all the Marys of the British Empire had contributed, for a wedding present to the Princess.

Trefusis proposed to Kerr that the remainder be spent buying a training centre for the Girl Guides, a cause close to the Princess's heart.

As the matter had to be settled by the next day, Kerr gave Trefusis the phone number of Pax Hill, the Baden-Powells' home.

Helen Storrow gave the money to equip the small lodge and Juliette Low stayed in it for several weeks to get it in order.