The Fox And Goose

The Fox and Goose is a former guildhall that now operates as a public house and restaurant. It was described as newly built in a document from February 1509 and underwent alterations in 1616, which is noted on the door lintel on the north front. The building is timber framed, featuring good exposed studding on the north front and the ground floor of the east gable end, with original plain and herringbone brick nogging in alternate panels. The rest of the exterior is plastered. The roof is plaintiled, with concrete tiles on the north slope, and has shaped bargeboards.

The structure is two storeys high with an attic and has a jettied first floor on the north and east sides, supported by plain brackets. The bressummer is moulded and embattled. On the north face, a weathered canopied figure of St. Margaret of Antioch and the dragon is located on the corner post, while another indistinct figure on the east face may be similar. The north front features a range of seven square-leaded 18th-century casement windows and a central blocked doorway with a dated lintel.

To the south, there is a wide 19th-century porch with shaped bargeboards and a spike finial, leading to a 20th-century door. A large boarded segmental-headed inn sign, likely from the 19th century, is mounted at first floor level. The building has three stacks, two of which are internal and one at the west gable end; all are later additions with 19th-century shafts. The structure consists of seven bays, though the eighth bay at the west end is missing. The timbering is plain but substantial, and at the east end, there appear to have been four-bay long rooms on both the ground and first floors. The west end has been altered, making it difficult to deduce its original layout. There is evidence of one original partition on the upper floor, which includes a blocked four-centre arched doorway. The queen-post roof is supported by slightly cambered tie beams, although most of the heavy braces to the wall posts are now missing.