Fairlawn (St James Choir School)

Fairlawn, also known as St James' Choir School, is a house that has been converted into a school. It was built in 1885 for E.M. Marshall, with later additions in the 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick and has a slate roof. It is L-shaped in plan, featuring a main east garden front that faces Bargate and a north entrance front that faces Pelham Road.

The exterior is two storeys high, with the east front consisting of two symmetrical bays. It features a pair of full-height square bay windows, each with tripartite ground-floor French windows flanked by narrow sidelights in an Ionic pilastered surround. There is a string course and a diaper-work panel at the first-floor level, topped with a dentilled sill string course. The first floor has pairs of sash windows with arched glazing bars, set beneath flat arches with fluted keystones that carry relief panels. The windows are topped with dentilled pediments, diaper-work tympana, and taller projecting central sections with angle pilasters, relief panels featuring Marshall's cypher, and segmental pediments with urn finials. The roof has crested ridge tiles and ornate end stacks. To the left, there is a later, plainer addition with sash windows.

The north front includes steps leading to a projecting single-storey porch that has angle pilasters and a keyed round-arched entrance with double board doors. This porch features a moulded cornice and a triangular pediment made of ornately-moulded brick. To the left of the porch is a gabled section with a projecting external chimneystack that bears a segmental pedimented moulded brick date plaque, a second relief panel above, a panelled chimney shaft, string courses, and a pedimented gable with a diaper-work tympanum.

Inside, the building boasts an ornate wooden staircase and moulded plasterwork in the main rooms.