The Fox Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. Public house. 8 related planning applications.
The Fox Public House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-courtyard-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fox Public House, Fox Lane, Westcot Barton, OX7 7BL
- OS grid reference
- SP 432 256
- Coordinates
- 51.928, -1.37198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox Public House is an early 18th-century public house located on Enstone Road. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with squared marlstone quoins and wooden lintels, topped with an artificial stone-slate roof featuring a brick gable stack. The building has a two-unit plan with a subsidiary wing and stands two storeys plus an attic.
The front of the building, which is oriented at right angles to the road, features a central doorway with a stop-chamfered lintel. To the left of the doorway is a three-light casement window, also with a stop-chamfered lintel, situated above a small canted bay window that likely dates from the 19th century. The roof includes a stack to the left and a gabled roof dormer. There is a single-storey bay to the left with a 20th-century window. The right gable wall, facing the road, has a large casement window above a 20th-century bay window. At the rear, there are two gabled roof dormers.
Inside, the pub features a large open fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer.
Local climate
The Fox Public House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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