The Fox Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Fox Inn
- WRENN ID
- second-fireplace-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fox Inn, Corscombe, DT2 0NS
- OS grid reference
- ST 525 052
- Coordinates
- 50.84513, -2.67481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox Inn is a public house dating from the mid-17th century. It features rubble-stone walls that have been whitewashed and a thatched roof with gable ends. There are brick stacks located at the left-hand gable and another at the right-hand side, set in from the gable end. The building is two storeys high and has three windows plus one additional bay. The windows are three-light wooden casements with wooden lintels above. The ground floor windows have 20th-century shutters. The front door, located at the centre, is wooden and has 12 glass panes, with a thatch canopy above it. At the rear, there is a wing with rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof, featuring a wide plank door.
Local climate
The Fox Inn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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