The Fox is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Public house.
The Fox
- WRENN ID
- noble-chapel-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fox, Old North Road, Bourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 313 551
- Coordinates
- 52.1792, -0.08038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox is a public house dating from the 18th century, with additions made in 1841. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with a plastered plinth and a painted brick rear wing. The building has slate roofs and a rebuilt ridge stack. It stands two storeys high with attics. A 19th-century gabled porch with a tiled roof, bargeboard, and apex finial leads to a six-panelled door that is accompanied by a fanlight and sidelights. The property has two ground floor and two first floor twelve-paned flush framed hung sash windows.
Local climate
The Fox sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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