16 AND 17, FAIRFAX PLACE
16 AND 17, FAIRFAX PLACE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208881
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 17, FAIRFAX PLACE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
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:
- 2001-06-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/04593/35
- Rights:
- © Mr Brian Head. 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:
- 1208881
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 17, 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:
- 16 AND 17, 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 87823 51253
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 FAIRFAX PLACE 673-1/8/120 (East side) 23/10/72 Nos.16 AND 17
GV II
Pair of shops and houses. Probably mid/late C18, some C20 modernisation. Painted Flemish-bond brick front, other walls are plastered and probably stone rubble; disused stacks; slate roof. PLAN: Each double-depth and one room wide. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window first-floor front. Ground floor is plastered and lightly blocked out as ashlar up to a moulded cornice to left of the shop fronts. Remains of a late C19 unified timber shop front across both properties: canted bay shop window flanked by plain pilasters and doorway to right with recessed part-glazed 6-panel door under plain overlight; fascia with projecting moulded cornice continues above C20 shop front of No.16 and indicates that it had a mirror-image shop front. First floor has flat brick arches with projecting keystones over blind centre windows and 12-pane sashes, except 2 to first-floor right where windows enlarged in the late C19 and contain sashes without glazing bars. Brick plat band at second-floor level and projecting pilasters each end. Deep timber moulded eaves cornice including a frieze of peardrop decoration. Parallel roof is gable-ended. Rear elevation with paired doorways containing C20 doors and most of the 12-pane sashes here are C20 replacements. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest and No.16 said to have "good staircase". HISTORY: Lower Street/Fairfax Place was created on land reclaimed from the estuary in the late C16 and was thereafter an important trading street which connected the old quay at Bayards Cove with the New Quay at the present Boat Float.
Listing NGR: SX8782351253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387242
- 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 19-Jul-2026 at 01:55:33.
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.