The Fox Inn is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. A C18 Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Fox Inn
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lancet-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fox Inn, 37, High Street, Pirton, SG5 3PS
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 318
- Coordinates
- 51.97288, -0.33171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox Inn is a public house that originally served as a house, dating from the 17th century with an early 18th-century brick front and an 18th-century extension to the east. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, with a front made of red and blue brick, and a lighter red brick extension. It has steep old red tile roofs that extend down over the rear outshuts.
The structure is two storeys high with a two-cell internal chimney and a lobby entry plan. It is set back from the road and faces south, with a slightly lower two-storey wing set back at the eastern end. The older part of the building has two storeys on each floor and a central entrance. It includes recessed two-light casement windows, a plat-band, a low plinth, and segmental arches over the ground floor windows. The eastern extension has an irregular arrangement of two windows on each floor, featuring two- and three-light casement windows, with a door located near the middle. Inside, there is a side-purlin roof structure, axial beams, and open fireplaces.
Local climate
The Fox Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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