1, FAIRFAX PLACE
1, FAIRFAX PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297104
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 1, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, FAIRFAX PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297104
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 1, FAIRFAX PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 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:
- 1, 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 87800 51310
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 FAIRFAX PLACE 673-1/8/112 (West side) 08/10/80 No.1
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 yellow and red 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 right end corner and another bay on the return to Church Close. Very elaborate timber-framed front with Bathstone corbels to left party wall. Ground-floor timber shop front is largely original; rounded corner, large panes, ovolo-moulded glazing bars, and recessed doorway containing bottom-panelled glazed door. Corner above supported on original 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. All are 3-light mullion-and-transom windows. First-floor lower panels enriched with Jacobean-style pargetting; second-floor lower panels have criss-cross braces and, on the dormer and the wider bay on the side, there is elaborate decorative slate-hanging in 2 colours. Bargeboards to gables with elaborate wrought-iron finials. Top lights of first- and second-floor windows have patterns of coloured leaded glass and front centre panels include the date 1880 and initial E. Rear section of the Church Close return built of snecked grey limestone with red brick dressings. 2-window section. Windows plainer versions of those on front, all under low segmental arches. Left second-floor window breaks forward on moulded base and rises above eaves to gabled half-dormer. Door to rear under cranked arch. Roof gable-ended and rear hung with plain slates. INTERIOR: Contains orginal joinery and plaster detail. Nos 1-3 Fairfax Place were built together with a unified symmetrical frontage, lavishly decorated in C17 style.
Listing NGR: SX8779851310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387234
- 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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