The Fox
THE FOX, 2, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126413
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOX, 2, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126413
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOX, 2, NORTH 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, 2, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 58688 67194
Details
TL 5867 BURWELL NORTH STREET (East Side)
14/40 No 2 (The Fox)
GV II
Inn, late C16, or early C17. Gable end room to west, of original three unit plan rebuilt in C18 and in mid C19. Clunch with modern tiled roof and local brick ridge stack to right hand; painted C19 brick and hipped slate roof. Early building one storey and attic; two gabled twelve-paned hung sash dormer windows, two half-glazed doors to right and left hand with three windows of varying sizes with glazing bars, two have late C18 panelled shutters. Two storey cross-wing with two side stacks. One first floor twelve-paned recessed hung sash window and canted bay with hung sash windows and flat roof at ground floor. Interior has original double ovolo-moulded axial beams. Th Fox was first recorded as an ale house in 1764.
RCHM, North-East Cambs, p.36, mon. 60
Listing NGR: TL5868867194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48980
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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