Fox And Hounds Public House

The Fox and Hounds Public House is a public house built around 1846. It is constructed of gault brick with red brick dressings on the main range, while the rear is made of red brick, part of which is whitewashed. The building features a slate roof with stacks located at the left end, the rear of the main range, and the ridge of a rear wing. These stacks have gault brick bases and elaborate ornamental red brick flues in single, double, and triple configurations.

Designed in the Tudor style, the building stands two storeys tall and has a three-window range on the first floor, featuring 2-light casements with hood moulds. The ground floor has three Tudor-arched 8/8 sash windows, also under hood moulds, with recessed spandrels. A central porch slightly projects and contains a double-leaved part-glazed door beneath a basket-arched overlight. Above the porch is a decorative corbel table that mirrors the more elaborate cornice at the main eaves of the front.

On the right end, there is a similar 8/8 sash window on each floor, both under decorative gable barge boards. The left end features a 3/6 sash window on either side of a projecting stack, along with a part-glazed door and a 6/6 sash window, all with hood moulds. The rear wing includes two 8/8 sashes with hood moulds and a 4/8 sash above, with a door at the far end. There is also a 2-light casement in the lower far wing, which has a pantile roof. At the rear of the main range, there is a lower outshut with sashes and a 20th-century single-storey extension. The wing has casements and a door, with the lower part featuring a blocked cart entrance with a Tudor-arched head. This well-detailed public house was likely built around the same time as the former station in 1846 and was certainly established by the end of that decade, according to the Thurston History Group publication.