Old Fox Hotel
OLD FOX HOTEL, 27, IPSWICH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355044
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Old Fox Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- OLD FOX HOTEL, 27, IPSWICH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355044
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Old Fox Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD FOX HOTEL, 27, IPSWICH 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:
- OLD FOX HOTEL, 27, IPSWICH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stowmarket
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 04972 58547
Details
STOWMARKET
TM0458 IPSWICH STREET 614-1/4/75 (North East side) 28/07/50 No.27 Old Fox Yard (Formerly Listed as: IPSWICH STREET (North East side) No.27 The Fox Hotel)
GV II
Public house and hotel, converted to shopping arcade and offices mid 1980s. C17, altered each century since. Timber-framed and brick. Rendered and colourwashed. Slate roofs to front wing, pantiled to rear. 7-bay front range with cross wings to rear forming enclosed yard, now all shops. Early C19 facade of 3 storeys. Rusticated plastered quoins. 4-centred carriage arch right of centre leads to yard. To its left is a mid C19 public house front with 4 arched glazed bays with pilasters and cornice and a recessed canted doorway to the left, also glazed. Between this and the carriage arch is a further 2 bays of arched glazing. In the dado of each bay is a raised and fielded panel. To the right of the carriage arch are 2 bays of altered sashes and a glazed C20 doorway to extreme right. First and second floors with mixed sashes and casements, all C19 or later. Gabled roof of 2 pitches, reflecting 2 original builds. Ridge stack right of centre and second stack left of centre on rear roof slope. Top of hipped cross wing visible behind right-hand stack. Main cross wing in yard with 8/8 c1770 sashes in flush frames. Otherwised mixed fenestration of C19 and C20. C20 shopfronts. North-east shop backing onto Church Lane early C17, timber-framed, with a first-floor jetty to north.
Listing NGR: TM0497258547
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384602
- 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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