The Fox Public House

TL 32NE ASPENDEN THE STREET (south side)

4/3 The Fox P. H. (formerly listed as 22.2.67 Fox and Hounds P.H.)

GV II

House, now a P.H. Later C17, renovated in early C19 (auctioned as The Fox Beershop, of long standing, in 1871-poster in bar). Timber frame roughcast with weatherboarded apron at front and steep pitched roof now slated. A 2-storeys, 3-cell, central- chimney plan house facing N, with 2-storeys rear outshut under a catslide roof, and a single-storey further outshut at SW under a continuation of catslide. Long single-storey weatherboarded and red pantiled range of former stabling at W end projecting far to front. W external gable chimney to unheated W room added in C18. Front has 3 windows to each floor and a small window in front of the central chimney. 2 doors. 2-light Yorkshire sliding casements with small panes on both floors at E end on ground floor at W. 3-and 2-light flush casements elsewhere 6-panel raised and fielded RH door with a flat hood on shaped brackets, 4-panel flush-beaded door on LH in moulded architrave and gabled timber porch. Interior has exposed timbers, axial beams in parlour (E) and hall, but axial joists in narrow W room, now thrown into bar. 2 large open fireplaces in narrow bricks with timber lintols and stepped-headed niches in each. Accommodation described in 1871 as 'Parlour, taproom, kitchen, storeroom, cellar, and 4 bedrooms'.

Listing NGR: TL3603828194