The Fox and Hounds Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. Public house. 6 related planning applications.

The Fox and Hounds Public House

WRENN ID
fallow-zinc-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1985
Type
Public house
Address
The Fox and Hounds Public House, 183, High Street, Batchworth, WD3 1AY
OS grid reference
TQ 057 944
Coordinates
51.63902, -0.4731
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Fox and Hounds public house probably originated in the 17th century, with significant enlargement occurring in the early 19th century. Further extensions and alterations were made in the 20th century. The core of the building is likely timber-framed, with later rendered stock brick casing and extensions. It has tiled roofs. One bay of the original building remains. The main range is two windows wide and two storeys high, with a central entrance and a rectangular fanlight above. Flanking the entrance are sash windows in reveals; the ground floor is banded and rusticated with low-relief rose ornamentation. First-floor windows are sash windows in reveals, and the building has boxed eaves and a pyramidal roof. To the right is a lower, earlier bay with a steeply pitched roof and a single sash window to the front, featuring dentilled brick eaves. A cross-axial brick stack is present. A 20th-century outbuilding extends further to the right. Sash windows are visible on the right return and rear elevations. A lean-to addition exists on the left return, featuring an entrance, a ground-floor horizontal sliding sash window, and a first-floor sash window. A stack is located at the rear left. The interior includes a chamfered ground floor binding beam, while the first-floor was not inspected.

Local climate

The Fox and Hounds Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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