The Fox Inn

SJ 2829 NE OSWESTRY C.P. CHURCH STREET (east side) SJ 2929 NE

13/27 No. 21 (The Fox Inn) 14/27 (formerly listed as Old Fox P.H.) 10.9.51 GV II

House, now inn. Late C15 or early C16, re-modelled early C19 and mid-C20. Timber framed, now roughcast and rendered to front with gable painted black and white in imitation of timber frame, slate roof. Original plan a range of 2 or 3 framed bays with projecting jettied gable to centre now cut back and underbuilt, early C19 flat-roofed additions to left and right. 2 storeys; late C19 casement to first floor of gable with similar windows to left and right; horizontal sliding sash with C20 shutters to ground floor beneath gable; C19 open-pedimented doorcases to left and right, left with 6-panel door and right with boarded door; rendered end stack to left. Timber frame exposed to left wall of passageway (behind boarded door to right), square and rectangular panels; formerly external segmental arch with bottoms of 2 close-set vertical posts visible above; flat joists to roof of passage and evidence for former jetty to rear. Interior: majority of ceiling beams and lintel of inglenook fireplace boxed in.

Listing NGR: SJ2899829510