Longfield House and Fairfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. House.
Longfield House and Fairfield House
- WRENN ID
- dim-gable-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Longfield House and Fairfield House is a dower house and attached stables, now divided into two houses. It dates from the early to mid-18th century, with some late 18th-century additions, 19th-century alterations, and a 20th-century conversion. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with stone slate roofs and has an L-shaped plan, with the stables located at the rear right.
The house itself is two storeys high and has three bays, with a rear range added in the late 18th century. The symmetrical facade features raised quoins that are rusticated alternately. The entrance includes a six-panel double door with a two-pane overlight, framed by a rusticated ashlar surround, and is set within a later Tuscan porch that has a modillion cornice and blocking course. Each side of the entrance has a large double-chamfered cross-window. On the first floor, there is a central oculus with glazing bars and an alternately rusticated voussoired surround, flanked by two-light double-chamfered mullion windows that were formerly transomed. The facade is finished with a dentil cornice and ashlar coping, and there are two corniced stacks at the centre of the right side.
At the rear, the house features a six-panel door with a window to the left on each floor, paired gutter brackets, and an eaves stack. The stables project on the left side and have an inner return of three bays, with quoins on the left and plain stone surrounds to the openings. From left to right, there are a window, paired glazed doors, two windows, a wide window, a door that has been converted to a window, and another window. The stables also have paired gutter brackets and two ridge stacks. The right return shows a straight joint between the front range of the house, which has watershot masonry, and the later work.
Inside, the house features an 18th-century dog-leg, open-string staircase with turned balusters. The rear entrance hall doorway leading to the front hall has fluted half-columns and a segmental pediment.
This building served as a dower house to Field House.
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