The Fox and Hounds Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. A C17 Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Fox and Hounds Inn
- WRENN ID
- tattered-tracery-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Fox and Hounds Inn, A363, Monkton Farleigh, BA15 2PU
- OS grid reference
- ST 805 639
- Coordinates
- 51.37457, -2.28099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox and Hounds Inn is an inn that dates back to the late 17th century, with extensions added in the 19th and late 20th centuries. It is constructed of rubble stone with a limestone ashlar addition and features a double Roman tiled roof, with artificial Welsh slates on the 19th-century section, along with stone stacks and coped verges. The building is laid out in an L-plan and is two storeys high, with a one-window 17th-century front facing north.
On the ground floor, there is a half-glazed door to the right and a 16-pane sash window in a beaded architrave to the left. The first floor has a 3-light cyma-mullioned casement. The 19th-century range that projects to the right includes 12-pane sash windows. The left return, which is the gable end facing the road of the 17th-century range, features a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor in a beaded architrave, a 2-light cyma-mullioned casement with a hoodmould on the first floor, and a single-light cyma-moulded casement in the attic.
The rear, which was formerly the main front, has a combination of windows including a 3-light and two 2-light ovolo-mullioned casements, along with a moulded doorway on the ground floor that is now part of a 20th-century lean-to addition. There is a continuous string course and additional 2-light and 3-light mullioned casements on the first floor, with a gabled wing from the 19th century attached to the rear right. The west gable end of the 17th-century range has 20th-century single-storey additions, a blocked 2-light mullioned window on the first floor, and a single ovolo-moulded casement in the attic. The rear of the 19th-century wing also has a lean-to addition.
Inside, the 17th-century range features a bolection-moulded stone fireplace at the east gable end and an 18th-century beaded stone fireplace surround with rounded corners at the west, along with chamfered beams. The inn has been licensed since the mid-18th century.
Local climate
The Fox and Hounds Inn receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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