The Fox Inn
THE FOX INN, 37, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175478
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOX INN, 37, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175478
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOX INN, 37, HIGH 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, 37, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pirton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14693 31803
Details
PIRTON HIGH STREET TL 1431 (North side)
7/160 No. 37 - (The Fox Inn)
GV II
House, now a public house. C17, early C18 brick front, C18 lower E extension. Timber frame roughcast with red brick and blue brick front, lighter red brick E extension, steep old red tile roofs carried down at rear over outshuts. A 2-storeys, 2-cells, internal chimney, lobby entry plan house, set back from road, facing S, with a lower 2 storeys wing set back a little, on E end. Older part has 2 storeys to each floor and central entrance. Recessed 2-lights casement windows. Plat-band, low plinth, and segmental arches to ground floor windows. E extension has irregular arrangement of 2 windows to each floor with 2- and 3-lights casement windows and door near middle. Side-purlin roof structure to house, axial beams, and open fireplaces.
Listing NGR: TL1469331803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163170
- 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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