Fairhaven

BIDDULPH C.P. TUNSTALL ROAD SJ 85 NE (west side), Knypersley

7/48 Fairhaven - GV II

Parsonage, now institutional home. Circa 1850, by R.C. Hussey. Coursed and dressed stone; blue machine tile roofs; verge parapets, shouldered and stepped kneelers; corniced ashlar side and end stacks. Based off Tudor 'H' plan and intended to appear as if a screen passage should run across the lower end of a great hall; late Tudor/Jacobean style carried through especially to front elevation. 2-storey and attic, irregularly fenestrated 5-window front; projecting end gables with range of block mullioned and corniced 2-light sash windows to left and central end stack to right flank central recess: cruciform mullioned window to left, gabled half-dormer with 2-light sash to centre and small lights to right; porch clasped against left gable run up as elaborately corniced and balustraded tower, steeply pedimented carved plaque at first floor level depicting Bateman coat-of-arms over pilastered and strapwork-enriched round-arched entrance; cornice taken across entire frontage as cavetto string. The building forms one of a group constructed under the patronage of John Bateman of Biddulph Grange (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8805056869