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The Fox was situated at 17 Ipswich Street. This pub was a commercial hotel and posting house dating from the mid 18th century and closing in 1984. The building is grade-II listed and was converted for retail use.
Listed building details:
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.
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