Chipping Norton: The Fox Hotel
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Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 30 May 2015
The Fox Hotel is at the southern end of the Market Place. At the time the photograph was taken it was closed pending internal refurbishment works. It is a Grade II Listed Building and the English Heritage website describes it thus:- "Early C17 altered, of coursed and squared rubblestone with a steeply pitched gable stone tiled roof and 3 brick stacks, that to the E on a stone base. L-shaped plan at the corner of 2 roads. Market Place facade of 2 storeys and attic, 6-window range. Internally the C17 building has been extended to the E to include 2 bays of the early C18 Baroque former town house. This accounts for the 6-window range. The town house bays have one gabled dormer, 12-pane sashes with projecting keystones to the first floor and a remodelled ground floor of paired large pane sashes. The C17 building has 2 pedimented dormers with 2-pane casements set in the roof, 16-pane sashes to the upper floor and a series of arched openings one possibly a former carriage arch to the ground floor. C20 door cut into the corner angle of the building. Inside the room at first floor level in the C18 Baroque section has fielded panelling to dado level and in the ground floor front bar there is an early C17 fireplace with moulded jambs and an obtuse angled head with sunk panelled spandrels." Unfortunately your photographer did not realise that the town house on the left formed part of the whole when the photograph was taken. For a better view of the entire listed building in 2011 please see Jonathan's Image
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