Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497 FAIRFIELD STREET
698-1/20/126 (South side)
20/06/88 Nos.18 AND 20
Star and Garter PH

II

Public house. Dated 1877. Red brick with stone dressings and
steeply-pitched slate roof. Irregular plan on acutely-angled
corner site. Gothic form with some Baroque details. Three
storeys including half dormers, 5 bays to Fairfield Street,
symmetrical, the 2nd and 4th bays with coupled windows and
pedimented half dormers and the centre with single openings
and a small half dormer, all these with corbelled pilasters to
the half-dormers, the pediments with checker-board patterns
and the central dormer with a shaped gable surmounted by a
segmental pediment. Central square-headed doorway with stone
architrave; windows round-headed at ground floor,
segmental-headed at 1st floor and square-headed in the
dormers; plastered coved eaves. Tall chimney stacks. Canted
corner to the right with projected triangular porch which has
doorway in Baroque surround, half-dormer above like that in
the centre at the front, lettered "AD 1877". Return side in
similar style.

Listing NGR: SJ8465097801

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Star and Garter at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979571

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)