The Fox Hotel

CHIPPING NORTON MARKET PLACE SP 3027-3127 3/35 The Fox Hotel 3.3.69 GV II Hotel. Early C17 altered of coursed and squared rubblestone with a steeply pitched gable stone tiled roof and 3 brick stacks, that to the E on a stone base. L-shaped plan at the corner of 2 roads. Market Place facade of 2 storeys and attic, 6-window range. Internally the C17 building has been extended to the E to include 2 bays of the early C18 Baroque former town house. This accounts for the 6-window range. The town house bays have one gabled dormer, 12-pane sashes with projecting keystones to the first floor and a remodelled ground floor of paired large pane sashes. The C17 building has 2 pedimented dormers with 2-pane casements set in the roof, 16-pane sashes to the upper floor and a series of arched openings one possibly a former carriage arch to the ground floor. C20 door cut into the corner angle of the building. Inside the room at first floor level in the C18 Baroque section has fielded panelling to dado level and in the ground floor front bar there is an early C17 fireplace with moulded jambs and an obtuse angled head with sunk panelled spandrels.

Listing NGR: SP3133327010