Fairfax House
FAIRFAX HOUSE, BATTISFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231522
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Fairfax House
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRFAX HOUSE, BATTISFORD ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/00213/27
- Rights:
- © Mrs B.A. Curtis. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231522
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Fairfax House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRFAX HOUSE, BATTISFORD ROAD
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:
- FAIRFAX HOUSE, BATTISFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barking
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 07142 53186
Details
BARKING BATTISFORD ROAD TM 05 SE
2/27 Fairfax House
9.12.55 II
House, c.1600. 2-cell lobby-entrance plan. 2 storeys and attics. Timber- framed and pebble-dashed; the 1st floor gable is jettied to left. Plaintiled roof with original chimney of narrow red bricks; a rectangular base with moulded brick cornice, and a shaft of narrow gault bricks. C20 small-pane sashes and gabled entrance porch with panelled door. Good quality timber- framing, unusually complete and well-exposed throughout. Chamfered ceiling joists, those to the attic floor are on edge. Close-studding with several blocked mullioned windows; in the parlour and chamber above ovolo-moulded and originally glazed, and over the hall diamond-mullioned and unglazed. Good unaltered open fireplaces, wide with a cambered lintel in the hall, and with an elliptical head in the parlour. A single-storey rear service wing may be a vestige of an earlier house. Formerly known as Spalding Hall. The Revd. John Fairfax, Rector of Needham Market until ejected in 1662, lived here after a period of imprisonment for his religious convictions, and died in 1700.
Listing NGR: TM0714253186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406580
- 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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