The Fox And Hounds Inn

The Fox and Hounds Inn is an inn dated 1742, with extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from moorstone rubble with granite jambstones and lintels, topped by a dry Delabole slate roof featuring an original wooden modillioned eaves cornice at the front. The building has an axial brick chimney and brick chimneys at the gable ends, with a shallow pitch roof at the rear to accommodate the first floor of later outshuts. There is a hipped scantle slate roof over the stair wing at the back of the entrance.

Originally, the inn had a three-room layout plus a rear stair wing. The outshuts were added in two phases during the 19th century, with a 20th-century extension to the rear wing. The inn is two storeys high and has a four-window south front, featuring one window to the left and a symmetrical three-window section to the right, with a central doorway. Above the doorway is a nowy-headed datestone with the initials NTA, indicating the National Turnpike Association. The entrance has an old six-panel door, and the windows are early 19th-century hornless tripartite sashes with glazing bars. The window above the door is narrower than the others, and the ground floor left window is wider, while the second ground floor window to the left of the door has been narrowed. There is a lean-to at the left gable end.

Inside, the entrance passage features original granite flags, and there is an original dog-leg stair. An 18th-century adjustable iron grate, originally situated between hobs, has been relocated to an altered fireplace in the middle room; it was discovered in a less altered fireplace in the right-hand room around 1970. The ceilings are later beamed, except for alternate beams in the right-hand (east) room.