Description

LEEDS

SE23NE PARKSIDE ROAD, Meanwood
714-1/6/970 (South side)
05/08/76 No.103
Fairfax House
(Formerly Listed as:
PARKSIDE ROAD, Meanwood
Fairfax House)

II

House. Dated 1630, rebuilt c1905. Coursed squared gritstone,
stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Central
top-glazed door in chamfered quoined surround, large lintel
cut to a shallow pointed arch with an incised panel with
raised lettering 'TAP-WP 1630'; stone brackets with flat
moulding over. Two 5-light recessed chamfered mullion windows
with hoodmoulds and carved stops to ground floor, 4-, 2-,
4-light mullion windows to first floor. Cyma-moulded kneelers
and gable copings, shaped finials.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The C17 house on the site stood at right angles to the road
and by 1905 was 3 cottages, disused. The stonework was re-used
to build the new house by 1911 in the Vernacular Revival
style; the re-set brackets over the door are similar to those
at Weetwood Hall (qv), 1625. The rebuilt house was known as
Hawcaster House.
(Hopwood WA & Casperson FP: Meanwood: Village, Valley,
Industry and People: 1986-: 62).

Listing NGR: SE2822038074

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656271

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]