The Fox and Hounds Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. A C17-C20 Public house. 9 related planning applications.
The Fox and Hounds Public House
- WRENN ID
- wild-railing-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fox and Hounds Public House, Chapel Street, Steeple Bumpstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 680 410
- Coordinates
- 52.04256, 0.44831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox and Hounds is a public house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and roughcast rendered, with a slate roof. The main building comprises four bays aligned north-south, featuring an external chimney stack at the south end and an eastern aspect. A parallel range was added to the rear in the 18th century. 20th-century lean-to extensions are present to the north of both the original building and rear range. A further rear extension, with a 19th-century chimney stack and a corrugated iron shed roof, extends from the north end. The building is two stories high. The front entrance is through a half-glazed door. Late 18th-century features include a horizontally sliding sash window with 32 panes, and a splayed bay of double-hung sash windows with 4-16-4 panes. A 20th-century casement window is also present. The first floor has two 19th-century casement windows. The roofs are steeply pitched. Inside, the building has plain-chamfered beams, with the joists plastered to the soffits.
Local climate
The Fox and Hounds Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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