Fox House Inn And Adjoining Cottage Service Buildings And Stables

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SK28SE HATHERSAGE ROAD 784-1/8/413 (North West side) 28/06/73 Fox House Inn and adjoining cottage, service buildings and stables (Formerly Listed as: HATHERSAGE ROAD Fox House Inn)

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Public house and adjoining cottage, service buildings and stables. Mid C17, and mid C18, restored and remodelled mid C19, with C20 alterations. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and 2 ridge, 2 gable and single external side wall stone stacks. U-plan around central yard. EXTERIOR: plinth, quoins, coped gables with kneelers. Main block, fronting Hathersage Road, 2 storeys; 6 window range. Off-centre 2 storey gabled porch with a single pane window flanked by single 3-light casements. Below, a plank door flanked to left by a 3-light, and to right by cross mullioned windows, 3 and 4 lights. To left, an external stack with 4 diagonally set shafts, flanked by a single pane window on each floor. Left gable has a parapeted square 2 storey bay window with a 5-light cross mullioned window on each floor. Right gable has a small gabled porch. Rear service range, to east of yard, has to right a 2 storey block, L-plan. Right gable has a single glazing bar window and below, a door flanked to left by a square casement. To left, a 3-light mullioned window on each floor. To left again, a lower 2 storey stable range, with further lean-to stables at the rear. Beyond, a higher barn. At the rear of the barn, a catslide roof with a gabled dormer with a 2-light mullioned window and finials. Below, stables. Return range, to north of yard, has to right a 2 bay cartshed reduced to a single storey and roofless. To its left, a 2 storey coach house with a gable stack and a single central window. Below, 2 carriage openings, enlarged C20. To left again, a lower 2 storey cottage with a gable stack and 2 windows on each floor, the larger ground floor ones with wooden lintels. The windows of these buildings are boarded up. INTERIOR not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 477).

Listing NGR: SK2663980264