Fairhaven

Fairhaven is a parsonage, now used as an institutional home, built around 1850 by R.C. Hussey. The structure is made of coursed and dressed stone, topped with blue machine tile roofs. It features verge parapets, shouldered and stepped kneelers, and corniced ashlar stacks on the sides and ends. The design is based on a Tudor 'H' plan, intended to give the impression that a screen passage runs across the lower end of a great hall, reflecting late Tudor and Jacobean styles, particularly on the front elevation.

The building is two stories with an attic and has an irregularly arranged five-window front. It has projecting end gables, with a range of block mullioned and corniced two-light sash windows on the left and a central end stack on the right. The central recess includes a cruciform mullioned window to the left, a gabled half-dormer with a two-light sash in the center, and small lights to the right. A porch is attached to the left gable, designed as an elaborately corniced and balustraded tower, featuring a steeply pedimented carved plaque at the first floor level that depicts the Bateman coat-of-arms above a pilastered and strapwork-enriched round-arched entrance. A cornice runs across the entire frontage as a cavetto string. The building is part of a group constructed under the patronage of John Bateman of Biddulph Grange.