1, Fairfax Place

No. 1 Fairfax Place is a shop with domestic accommodation above, built in 1880 for RC Cranford. It is constructed of stone, brick, and timber framing, with a slate roof and pierced crested ridge tiles. The building features panelled chimneyshafts of yellow and red brick, over slate-hung bases to the front axial and rear gable end stacks.

The symmetrical three-bay front has a fourth bay canted at the corner and another bay on the return to Church Close. An elaborate timber-framed front features Bathstone corbels to the left party wall. The largely original ground-floor shop front has a rounded corner, large panes, ovolo-moulded glazing bars, and a recessed doorway with a bottom-panelled glazed door, supported on original cast-iron columns with ornamental capitals. Each floor is jettied with shaped joist ends projecting through a moulded timber cornice. The centre bay breaks forward at the second-floor level with a gabled dormer above. All windows are 3-light mullion-and-transom windows. The lower panels of the first-floor windows are enriched with Jacobean-style pargetting, while the lower panels of the second-floor windows have criss-cross braces. Decorative slate-hanging in two colours is present on the dormer and the wider bay to the side. Bargeboards to the gables have elaborate wrought-iron finials. The top lights of the first- and second-floor windows contain patterns of coloured leaded glass, and the front centre panels include the date 1880 and initial E.

The rear section of the Church Close return is built of snecked grey limestone with red brick dressings and features two windows, with plainer versions of the front windows under low segmental arches. A second-floor window breaks forward on a moulded base, rises above the eaves to a gabled half-dormer. A door to the rear is under a cranked arch. The roof is gable-ended, and the rear is hung with plain slates.

The interior contains original joinery and plaster detail. Nos. 1-3 Fairfax Place were built together with a unified symmetrical frontage, lavishly decorated in the 17th century style.