The Fox Rotunda is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. Monument.
The Fox Rotunda
- WRENN ID
- narrow-spire-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- The Fox Rotunda, Park Paddocks, Newmarket
- OS grid reference
- TL 641 630
- Coordinates
- 52.24105, 0.40247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox Rotunda is a monument dating from around 1780, originally designed as a fountain at Hyde Park Corner in London. It features a Portland limestone cupola supported by four Ionic columns on a circular plinth, topped with a marble bust of George IV. Beneath the cupola is a square pedestal that holds a marble dish, with fountains on each face designed in the shape of brass dolphins. A painted lead fox is positioned on the pedestal. The bust of the Prince Regent was added to the cupola after the rotunda was relocated to the Knightsbridge salerooms of Richard Tattershall around 1865. The rotunda was moved to its current location around 1960.
Local climate
The Fox Rotunda 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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