Fairfield Lodge
FAIRFIELD LODGE, TOWNSEND
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126419
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Fairfield Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRFIELD LODGE, TOWNSEND
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-10-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/05607/20
- Rights:
- © Mrs Barbara Egerton. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126419
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Fairfield Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRFIELD LODGE, TOWNSEND
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:
- FAIRFIELD LODGE, TOWNSEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Soham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5914774233
Details
TL 57 SE
8/80
SOHAM
TOWNSEND
(East Side)
Fairfield Lodge
II
The original house was built in mid C16, of two bays and cross-
passage plan with gable end to the road. In the early C17 the
wing to the left hand was added, and the plan of the house was
converted to one of hall and crosswing with a lobby-entry.
Crosswing, timber framed, plaster rendered with steeply pitched
tile roof, with a gablet at the rear. Large ridge stack, cut
down, at junction with hall. Two storeys. Two C20 casements to
gable end and to side wall. Hall, early C17 also timber framed,
plaster rendered with gable end to left-hand rebuilt in gault
brick. Two storeys. Three C20 casements. Modern door in
original doorway to early C17 lobby-entry. Interior. The plan
of the original two-bayed mid C16 house remains intact. In the
service end, the partition wall between the buttery and pantry
survives, as do the two service doorways off the cross-passage,
one with its original arched head. The opposing entries to the
cross-passage have been blocked and a staircase inserted, but an
early C17 screen with square, sunken panelling and a frieze of
strapwork remains. The hall has an original quartered floor
frame with moulded and leaf stopped main beams, and an original
hearth of clunch. There is curved bracing between the jowled
posts and the tie-beams. A pair of posts, unjowled, and without
a tie-beam form an intermediate bay in the service end. The
roof is of side purlin construction and of substantial
scantling. There are straight wind braces between rafters and
purlins. No sooted rafters were visible. The early C17 wing is
in two bays. The hearth is of brick and abuts the mid C16
hearth. The floor joists are carried on a chamfered clamp. The
main beam is chamfer stopped. At first flor, there are braces
between posts and tie-beams and a middle rail or side girth
about three feet below the wall plate. The roof is also of side
purlin construction but of light scantling and without wind
bracing.
Listing NGR: TL5914774233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48887
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 15-Jun-2026 at 09:50:39.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.