Fairlea Including Gatepiers At East End And Garden Wall

BIDEFORD

SS42NW NORTHDOWN ROAD 842-1/1/210 Fairlea including gatepiers at E end 19/03/73 and garden wall (Formerly Listed as: NORTHDOWN ROAD Favilea (including gate piers))

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Detached house. 1840. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof. Rendered chimneys with octagonal shafts. Iregular double-depth plan; staircase centre right with original kitchen behind it. 2 storeys with basement. Gothic and Tudor exterior with 3-window front facing east. Gabled projection to right with Gothic bargeboards, these continued to left and on to right side-wall as a deep boxed eaves cornice. Small-paned sash window with Gothic arches to the top row of panes; straight hood-moulds. Pilaster-strips at left end of front and flanking gable. Raised band above ground storey. Similar gables and windows on each side-wall, although that to left has only plain sashes. Back entrance to left has plank door in a pointed-arched opening; trellised porch with Gothic bargeboards. INTERIOR: geometrical wood stair with cutstrings and thin square balusters, the soffits of the treads shaped. 2 round-headed semi-circular niches in the compartment-walls. Entrance-passage and first-floor landing have plaster frieze of Gothic arches. Enriched oval skylight with glazing-bars. Original large kitchen fireplace with wood surrounds. High stone rubble garden walls with gate (disused) at E end, at the junction with Slade. Square rendered gate-piers with pedimented caps; inset Gothic panels, that to right retaining original rustic trellis-work (twigs with bark still on) nailed to a wooden board. (Information from owner).

Listing NGR: SS4439026884