The Fox Hotel

The Fox Hotel is a hotel located in Chipping Norton, dating from the early 17th century and altered later. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubblestone and features a steeply pitched gable stone tiled roof with three brick stacks, one of which has a stone base. The building has an L-shaped plan at the corner of two roads and presents a façade to the Market Place that is two storeys tall with an attic and a six-window range.

Internally, the original 17th-century structure has been extended to the east to include two bays from an early 18th-century Baroque former town house, which accounts for the six-window range. The town house bays feature one gabled dormer, 12-pane sash windows with projecting keystones on the first floor, and a remodelled ground floor with paired large pane sashes. The original 17th-century part of the building has two pedimented dormers with 2-pane casements in the roof, 16-pane sashes on the upper floor, and a series of arched openings on the ground floor, one of which may have been a former carriage arch. A 20th-century door has been cut into the corner angle of the building.

Inside, the room on the first floor in the 18th-century Baroque section features fielded panelling up to dado level, while the ground floor front bar contains an early 17th-century fireplace with moulded jambs and an obtuse angled head with sunk panelled spandrels.