Fairfield and Fairmead
FAIRFIELD AND FAIRMEAD, BELLAIRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385014
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Fairfield and Fairmead
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRFIELD AND FAIRMEAD, BELLAIRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385014
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Fairfield and Fairmead
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRFIELD AND FAIRMEAD, BELLAIRE
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:
- FAIRFIELD AND FAIRMEAD, BELLAIRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55326 34263
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534 BELLAIRE, Pilton
684-1/2/315 (North side (off))
31/12/73 Fairfield and Fairmead
GV II
2 houses, originally built as one. 1827 (Reed). Stuccoed, rear
partly slate-hung; slate roofs; stacks with short brick shafts
and old pots. Main block flanked by lower-roofed wings on the
same axis.
Centre block 3 storeys with a gabled slate roof; 2-storey left
and right wings, roofs hipped at ends. Symmetrical
1:3:1-window range with front doors into the wings. Deep eaves
with projecting rafter ends; main block has 7-bay verandah on
cast-iron columns. Round-headed doorways with pilastered
architraves; 2-leaf half-glazed front doors with plain
overlights. First-floor windows to wings and second-floor
windows to main block are 12-pane sashes with margin panes.
Ground floor of main block rusticated with French windows with
margin panes. Verandah has pretty cast-iron balustrade with
spider's-web panels. First floor of main block has 3 French
windows, similar to ground floor, with stuccoed voussoirs
(right-hand missing). Rear elevation partly slate-hung with
very tall round-headed stair window.
INTERIOR: Fairfield partially inspected. The wing has a fine,
cast-iron eliptical cantilevered stair.
HISTORICAL NOTE: according to Reed the house was advertised to
let as `nearly finished' in 1827, when it was called Broadgate
Villa. The name had changed to Fairfield by 1918. It was the
home of the Munro family from 1872 and HH Munro, the author
`Saki' was brought up here by his grandmother and 2 maiden
aunts. His book The Square Egg, published 1924 with a
biographical note by his sister, describes life at Broadgate
Villa in the 1870s and 1880s (Reed, p162).
(Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-:
159-60).
Listing NGR: SS5532634263
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reed, M A, Pilton, its Past and Present, (1985), 159-160
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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