Fairholme

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SNAITH AND COWICK GOOLE ROAD SE 62 SW (north side) Snaith 2/54 Fairholme GV II House. 1848 by B and J Sykes for Mrs Shearburn; later C19 extension to rear. Red brick in Flemish bond, tuck-pointed, with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof, with lead roof to bay window, Yorkshire slate to oriel windows. Tudor Revival style with Gothic details. 1-shaped on plan: 2-room principal south garden front with entrance hall to rear right and projecting entrance porch to right return; service wing, with single-room extension, to rear left. South front: 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, with projecting gabled bay to left, 2-bay wing to right. Plinth. Left bay has steps to ground-floor wooden canted bay window with 4 full-length 4-centred arch lights with glazing bars and moulded mullions in hollow chamfered reveals, beneath moulded string course, plain frieze and flat roof; first-floor oriel with 4-shaped brackets supporting moulded base, 3 mullioned lights to front and single lights to sides, beneath hipped roof. Wing to right: cross windows with hollow-chamfered wood mullions in chamfered ashlar reveals with continuous hoodmould; 2-light mullioned first-floor windows in similar reveals beneath coped gables with single slit lights in chamfered reveals. Coped gables with octagonal finials and shaped kneelers. Axial stack and partly-projecting end stack to right, with ashlar string courses and yellow ceramic chimney pots with castellated heads and various relief designs to the shafts. Right elevation forms 4-bay east entrance front: 2-bay gabled range to left with projecting full-height entrance porch, and 2 bay rear wing set back to right. 3 stone steps to entrance with chamfered 4-centred arch and hoodmould, bowed oriel above with deep corbelled base, 3 mullioned lights, cornice and conical roof with ball finial, beneath coped gable with finial and kneelers. Projecting gable-end stack to left contains 2-light 4-centred arch window in deep chamfered reveal with hoodmould. Wing to right has single-light and 2-light mullioned windows in chamfered reveals, with continuous hoodmould to ground floor, glazing bars to first floor; axial stack with ornate chimney pots. West elevation: single-light and 2- light mullioned windows in similar reveals; inserted 12-pane sash beneath lintel and similar window to extension; pair of slit windows beneath gables similar to south front, lateral stack. Interior. Good original details, including: open well staircase with ramped handrail and arcaded balustrade with narrow pointed arches on octagonal shafts; south-west room with moulded corbels carrying chamfered ribs to ceiling, pair of double-chamfered pointed arches to bay window, and large Gothic ashlar chimney-piece with tall embattled octagonal buttress shafts, trefoiled panels flanking the arched fireplace, and quatrefoil frieze with cornice and brattished frieze above; south-east room with moulded ribs to ceiling, Tudor-arched ashlar chimney- piece with trefoiled panels beneath unusual window overmantel with Tudor- arched Continued ..... Fairholme continued ..... reveal flanked by arched panels; arcaded screen to upper hall, coved and ribbed ceilings to first floor, panelled doors in architraves and panelled reveals. A good example of a Victorian Gothic villa, with fine interior details; one of the series of mid-C19 suburban villas, in various styles, built at Snaith for the Shearburn family. Architect's drawings in owners possession; J Sykes may be the architect Joseph Sykes working in Batley in the mid - late C19. Chimney shafts by the Crigglestone Fireclay works of Wakefield.

Listing NGR: SE6475721986

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