THE FOX ROTUNDA

THE FOX ROTUNDA, PARK PADDOCKS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037631
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: THE FOX ROTUNDA
Statutory Address:: THE FOX ROTUNDA, PARK PADDOCKS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037631
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: THE FOX ROTUNDA
Statutory Address 1:: THE FOX ROTUNDA, PARK PADDOCKS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE FOX ROTUNDA, PARK PADDOCKS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Newmarket
National Grid Reference:: TL6413163036

Details

TL 6463 7/148

NEWMARKET PARK PADDOCKS (including EXNING) The Fox Rotunda

II

Monument. c.1780; originally a fountain at Hyde Park Corner, London. Portland limestone cupola on 4 Ionic columns on circular plinth, surmounted by bust in marble of George IV. Beneath the cupola a square pedestal with a marble dish and on each face a fountain in the form of a brass dolphin. A painted lead fox sits upon the pedestal. The Prince Regent was a friend of Richard Tattershall, and his bust was added to the cupola upon its resiting at the Knightsbridge salerooms of Tattershalls c.1865. The rotunda was moved to the present site c.1960.

Listing NGR: TL6413163036

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 275707
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.