The Fox and Hounds Public House With Inn Sign
THE FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE WITH INN SIGN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1295456
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE WITH INN SIGN, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-08-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/04265/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1295456
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE WITH INN SIGN, HIGH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE WITH INN SIGN, 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:
- Barley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39959 38396
Details
BARLEY HIGH STREET TL 3938 (East side) Barley
7/85 The Fox and Hounds 27.5.68 Public House with inn sign
GV II
Public house. Mid C17 with small C18, C19 and C20 additions. Timber frame, roughcast. Steeply pitched tiled roofs. 2 cell lobby entry with rear wing. 2 storeys. Central entrance with flanking flush frame small pane 3 light casements, hoodboards, on first floor 2 similar 2 light casements. Boxed eaves. Tall central stack behind ridge has multiple diagonal fillets, moulded base, oversailing cap. Exposed plates and purlins in gable ends. Attached to left a 1 storey, 1 bay gabled outshut with a 3 light casement in return. Attached to right and set back slightly a 1 bay, 2 storey lower addition with steeply pitched roof to front, shallower to rear, ground floor 3 and first floor 2 light casements. Behind this and attached to original rear wing is a separately gabled C19 brewhouse bay with an external red brick stack with offsets. Rear wing extends from front block at an angle, outer elevation first floor 2 light casement, rear gable end exposed plates and purlins, inner elevation entrance, scattered casements, a horizontal sliding sash and a stack. 1 storey C20 additions to rear left. Interior: ground floor has some exposed framing, double fireplace with a chamfered depressed brick arch and a cambered timber bressumer. First floor not inspected. Attached to right gable end is inn sign which is a timber beam resting on posts on either side of Church End. On top of beam are painted silhouette figures of huntsmen and hounds chasing a fox into the gable of the public house. This sign of c.1955 replaces an earlier sign that straddled the High Street where the original Fox and Hounds Inn stood. Formerly the Waggon and Horses Public House. (Hertfordshire Countryside, vol.17, No.67, Winter 1962, p.294).
Listing NGR: TL3995938396
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 162541
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hertfordshire Countryside in Winter, Vol. 17, (1962), 294
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