Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26637938

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)