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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491975

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)