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Latitude: 52.8584 / 52°51'30"N
Longitude: -3.0561 / 3°3'21"W
OS Eastings: 328990
OS Northings: 329510
OS Grid: SJ289295
Mapcode National: GBR 73.RVJM
Mapcode Global: WH89X.1F01
Plus Code: 9C4RVW5V+9H
Entry Name: The Fox Inn
Listing Date: 10 September 1951
Last Amended: 15 May 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1054323
English Heritage Legacy ID: 255497
Location: Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Oswestry
Built-Up Area: Croesowallt
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Oswestry St Oswald King and Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
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
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