The Fox Inn
THE FOX INN, 21, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054323
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOX INN, 21, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054323
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOX INN, 21, CHURCH STREET
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 INN, 21, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 28990 29509
Details
SJ 2829 NE OSWESTRY C.P. CHURCH STREET (east side) SJ 2929 NE
13/27 No. 21 (The Fox Inn) 14/27 (formerly listed as Old Fox P.H.) 10.9.51 GV II
House, now inn. Late C15 or early C16, re-modelled early C19 and mid-C20. Timber framed, now roughcast and rendered to front with gable painted black and white in imitation of timber frame, slate roof. Original plan a range of 2 or 3 framed bays with projecting jettied gable to centre now cut back and underbuilt, early C19 flat-roofed additions to left and right. 2 storeys; late C19 casement to first floor of gable with similar windows to left and right; horizontal sliding sash with C20 shutters to ground floor beneath gable; C19 open-pedimented doorcases to left and right, left with 6-panel door and right with boarded door; rendered end stack to left. Timber frame exposed to left wall of passageway (behind boarded door to right), square and rectangular panels; formerly external segmental arch with bottoms of 2 close-set vertical posts visible above; flat joists to roof of passage and evidence for former jetty to rear. Interior: majority of ceiling beams and lintel of inglenook fireplace boxed in.
Listing NGR: SJ2899829510
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255497
- 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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