Description

CHIPPING NORTON MARKET PLACE
SP 3027-3127
3/35 The Fox Hotel
3.3.69
GV II
Hotel. Early C17 altered of coursed and squared rubblestone with a steeply
pitched gable stone tiled roof and 3 brick stacks, that to the E on a stone base.
L-shaped plan at the corner of 2 roads. Market Place facade of 2 storeys and
attic, 6-window range. Internally the C17 building has been extended to the E
to include 2 bays of the early C18 Baroque former town house. This accounts for
the 6-window range. The town house bays have one gabled dormer, 12-pane sashes
with projecting keystones to the first floor and a remodelled ground floor of
paired large pane sashes. The C17 building has 2 pedimented dormers with 2-pane
casements set in the roof, 16-pane sashes to the upper floor and a series of
arched openings one possibly a former carriage arch to the ground floor. C20
door cut into the corner angle of the building. Inside the room at first floor
level in the C18 Baroque section has fielded panelling to dado level and in the
ground floor front bar there is an early C17 fireplace with moulded jambs and
an obtuse angled head with sunk panelled spandrels.

Listing NGR: SP3133327010

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26649573

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)