Fox and Hounds Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Public house.
Fox and Hounds Public House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-mullion-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Fox and Hounds Public House, 67, St James Street, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 859 225
- Coordinates
- 51.00247, -2.20138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox and Hounds Public House is a building dating from 1615, located on St James Street, North Side, No 67. It is a low, two-storey structure with a three-window stone rubble front and a plaintile roof. The ground floor features four windows, although the doorway has been removed and the windows have been altered. There is a sign on a wrought-iron bracket. Additionally, there is a lower, probably 18th-century, two-storey, one-bay addition on Tanyard Lane. The buildings numbered 55 to 67 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
Fox and Hounds Public House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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