Description

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

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