3, FAIRFAX PLACE
3, FAIRFAX PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197521
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 3, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 3, FAIRFAX PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197521
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 3, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, 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:
- 3, 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 51293
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 FAIRFAX PLACE 673-1/8/114 (West side) 08/10/80 No.3 (Formerly Listed as: FAIRFAX PLACE Nos.3 AND 4)
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 front axial and rear gable end stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; symmetrical 3-bay front, with fourth bay canted across left end corner and another bay on the return to Smith Street. Very elaborate timber-framed jettied front. To right the stone party wall has limestone ashlar corbels and, at first-floor level, a datestone carved 1620 and 1880. Ground-floor shop front is a C20 replacement. Canted corner supported on cast-iron columns with ornamental capitals. The rest is wholly original. Each floor is jettied with shaped joist ends projecting through a moulded timber cornice. Front centre bay breaks forward at second-floor level with gabled dormer above. One-, 2-, and 3-light mullion-and-transom windows. First-floor lower panels enriched with Jacobean-style pargetting; second-floor panels below the windows have criss-cross bracing, and the other panels hung with decorative slates in 2 colours. Bargeboards to the gables with elaborate wrought-iron finials. Top lights of first- and second-floor windows have patterns of coloured leaded glass. Rear section of the Smith Street return built of snecked grey limestone with red and yellow brick dressings. One-window section. Windows are plainer versions of those on front, all under low segmental arches. Second-floor window breaks forward on moulded base and rises through eaves to gabled half dormer. Door to left under cranked arch. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. Nos 1-3 Fairfax Place were built together with a unified symmetrical frontage in a lavishly-decorated Tudor style.
Listing NGR: SX8779851291
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387236
- 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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