Foxs Gymnasium

Fox's Gymnasium is a gymnasium built in 1894 for Colonel Fox of the Army Gymnastic Staff, with extensions added in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of brick and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan that includes a front office and changing rooms on the north side.

The exterior is single-storey with a five-bay gable and 19-bay sides. The gables are supported by stepped corbelled brackets and have round-arched openings. The ends of the building are defined by buttresses between sunken bays. The entrance gable features a porch with a matching gable, a round-arched entrance leading to a recessed door, round-arched windows that rise to the eaves, and a central oculus. The rear gable has four round-arched windows and a round-arched door on the left side.

On the north side, there are projecting gabled porches at both ends and in the center, with clasping buttresses and eaves corbels. The central porch has a round-arched doorway with splayed sides, double doors, and small flanking lights beneath an oculus. The end gables feature three ground-floor and one first-floor Venetian window, with parapeted linking ranges that include six round-arched windows. The opposite side is articulated by deep buttresses with small round-arched lights and a central gabled porch. The front gable and the rear end of the north side have mid-20th century single-storey extensions. The roof is topped with a large ridge lantern.

Inside, the gymnasium includes front offices and side changing rooms, a balcony at the entrance end supported by cast-iron columns, and wide, light wrought-iron trusses with paired struts and a curved bottom tie.

Historically, this gymnasium was built for the Army Gymnastic Staff, which was founded in 1860, as part of the rebuilding of the first temporary camps. It is the first of three similar gyms in Aldershot, including the Maida Gym, representing the second generation of army gyms designed to enhance the physical condition of soldiers.