2, FAIRFAX PLACE
2, FAIRFAX PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197520
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 2, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 2, FAIRFAX PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197520
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 2, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, FAIRFAX PLACE
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:
- 2, FAIRFAX PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87801 51302
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 FAIRFAX PLACE 673-1/8/113 (West side) 08/10/80 No.2
GV II
Shop with domestic accommodation above. Dated 1880, built for RC Cranford. Mixed construction; stone, brick and timber-framing, slate roof with pierced crested ridge tiles. Panelled chimneyshafts of red and yellow brick over slate-hung bases to axial and rear gable end stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; symmetrical 3-bay front flanked each side by stone party walls with moulded limestone corbels. Very elaborate timber-framed, jettied and gabled front. To first-floor left, a datestone carved 1620 and 1880. House doorway to left, 4-panel door with overlight. Good, largely original, timber shop front has ovolo-moulded glazing bars, original blind and central recessed doorway containing a bottom-panelled glazed door. Fascia above is carved "CHYMIST" and enriched with swags. The chemist's symbol, the phoenix, is included in the leaded glass above the shop door. Floors above are jettied with shaped joist ends projecting through moulded timber cornices. First floor has central 3-light oriel flanked by 2-light mullion-and-transom windows. The remaining panels are decorated with Jacobean-style pargetting. The centre panel at second-floor level is a massive pargetted panel representing the Borough seal. Either side are 2-light windows and above are a pair of windows with a shelf for flowerpots in front enclosed by a low balustrade of ornamental ironwork. The rest of the front is hung with ornamental slates in 2 colours. Plain bargeboards to the gable surmounted by an elaborate wrought-iron finial. INTERIOR: Contains original joinery and plaster including some of the chemist's shelving in the shop. Nos 1-3 Fairfax Place were built together with a unified symmetrical frontage in a lavishly-decorated Tudor style.
Listing NGR: SX8779851303
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387235
- 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.
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