Fox House Inn And Adjoining Cottage Service Buildings And Stables

The Fox House Inn and adjoining cottage, service buildings, and stables date from the mid-17th century, with significant additions and alterations in the mid-18th century and mid-19th century, alongside 20th-century changes. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, featuring two ridge stacks, two gable stacks, and a single external side wall stone stack, arranged in a U-plan around a central yard.

The main block, facing Hathersage Road, is two storeys high with a six-window range. It includes an off-centre two-storey gabled porch with a single-pane window, a plank front door flanked by a three-light casement window to the left and a cross-mullioned window (three and four lights) to the right. An external stack, flanked by single-pane windows on both floors, features four diagonally-set shafts. To the left gable is a parapeted square two-storey bay window with a five-light cross-mullioned window on each floor. The right gable has a small gabled porch. The rear service range, to the east of the yard, comprises a two-storey, L-shaped block to the right, a stable range, and a higher barn. The barn’s rear features a catslide roof with a gabled dormer containing a two-light mullioned window with finials, and below, stables. A return range to the north of the yard includes a two-bay cartshed, partly reduced to a single storey and roofless; a two-storey coach house with a gable stack and a single central window; and a lower two-storey cottage with a gable stack and two windows on each floor, larger ground floor windows featuring wooden lintels. The windows of these buildings are currently boarded up. The interior has not been inspected.