Fairlea Including Gatepiers At East End And Garden Wall

Fairlea is a detached house built in 1840, featuring solid rendered walls and a slate roof. It has rendered chimneys with octagonal shafts and an irregular double-depth plan, with the staircase located to the right and the original kitchen behind it. The house is two storeys tall with a basement and showcases a Gothic and Tudor exterior, presenting a three-window front facing east. To the right, there is a gabled projection adorned with Gothic bargeboards, which extend to the left and continue onto the right side wall as a deep boxed eaves cornice. The top row of small-paned sash windows features Gothic arches with straight hood-moulds. At the left end of the front, there are pilaster-strips and a raised band above the ground storey. The side walls have similar gables and windows, although the left side only has plain sashes. The back entrance on the left has a plank door set in a pointed-arched opening, accompanied by a trellised porch with Gothic bargeboards.

Inside, the house boasts a geometrical wooden staircase with cutstrings and thin square balusters, and the treads have shaped soffits. There are two round-headed semi-circular niches in the compartment walls. The entrance passage and first-floor landing feature a plaster frieze of Gothic arches, and there is an enriched oval skylight with glazing bars. The original large kitchen fireplace is framed with wood surrounds.

The property is enclosed by high stone rubble garden walls, which have a disused gate at the east end, where it meets Slade. The square rendered gate-piers have pedimented caps and inset Gothic panels, with the right panel retaining original rustic trellis-work made from twigs that still have bark on them, nailed to a wooden board.