The Fox and Goose
THE FOX AND GOOSE, BACK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032967
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox and Goose
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOX AND GOOSE, BACK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032967
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox and Goose
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOX AND GOOSE, BACK ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOX AND GOOSE, BACK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fressingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 26114 77453
Details
FRESSINGFIELD BACK ROAD TM 27 NE 10/16 - The Fox & Goose (formerly listed as 29.7.55 Fox and Goose Inn) GV II*
Former guildhall, now a public house and restaurant. Described as newly built in a document of February 1509. Altered 1616 (as dated on door lintol on the north front). Timber framed: the north front and the ground floor of the east gable end have good exposed studding with original plain and herringbone brick nogging in alternate panels. The remainder is plastered. Plaintiled roof, with concrete tiles on the north slope. Shaped bargeboards. 2 storeys and attic. Jettied first floor to north and east, carried on plain brackets; moulded and embattled bressummer. On its north face the corner post has a much weathered canopied figure of St. Margaret of Antioch and the dragon; another figure on the east face is indistinct but may be the same design. A range of 7 square-leaded C18 casement windows to the north front, and a central blocked doorway with the dated lintol. To the south a wide C19 porch with shaped bargeboards and spike finial; C20 door. Mounted at first floor level a large boarded segmental-headed inn sign, probably C19. 3 stacks, 2 internal and one at the west gable end; all are later insertions and have C19 shafts. The structure is in 7 bays; an 8th bay at the west end is missing. Plain but substantial timbering. At the east end there appears to have been 4-bay long rooms on ground and first floors. The west end has been altered and little can be deduced. Evidence for one original partition on the upper floor, with a blocked 4-centre arched doorway. Queen-post roof carried on slightly cambered tie beams, the heavy braces to the wall posts now mostly missing.
Listing NGR: TM2611477453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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