Fairfax House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. House.
Fairfax House
- WRENN ID
- buried-wattle-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fairfax House, 103, Parkside Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 282 380
- Coordinates
- 53.83818, -1.57265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairfax House is a house dated 1630, which was rebuilt around 1905. It is constructed from coursed squared gritstone and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three first-floor windows. The central entrance has a top-glazed door set in a chamfered quoined surround, with a large lintel shaped into a shallow pointed arch. This arch includes an incised panel with raised lettering that reads 'TAP-WP 1630', and there are stone brackets with flat moulding above the door.
On the ground floor, there are two 5-light recessed chamfered mullion windows with hoodmoulds and carved stops, while the first floor has a combination of 4-, 2-, and 4-light mullion windows. The house features cyma-moulded kneelers and gable copings, along with shaped finials. The interior has not been inspected.
Originally, a 17th-century house stood on this site at right angles to the road, which by 1905 had been converted into three disused cottages. The stonework from these cottages was reused to construct the new house in the Vernacular Revival style by 1911. The re-set brackets above the door resemble those found at Weetwood Hall, which dates to 1625. The rebuilt house was known as Hawcaster House.
Local climate
Fairfax House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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