Fairford Community Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Community centre. 7 related planning applications.
Fairford Community Centre
- WRENN ID
- grim-clay-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Community centre
- Address
- Fairford Community Centre, High Street, GL7 4AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 151 011
- Coordinates
- 51.70872, -1.78151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairford Community Centre, formerly known as Fairford Free School, is a community centre and library built in 1738 with funding from the Farmor family. The building features coursed and dressed stone with alternating chamfered quoins on a moulded plinth, and has a hipped slate roof with moulded stone eaves cornice and low stone stacks. It is a square three-storey structure, with a 19th-century extension to the rear that is not of special interest.
The facade has five windows on the upper floors, featuring 2-light stone mullion casements with plain beaded architraves and bull-nosed sills on the second floor. The first and ground floors have four 2-light stone mullion and transom windows in similar surrounds, with plat bands between the floors. The central window on the first floor is a 12-pane sash, framed by moulded stone pilasters and a cornice on consoles. Below this, there are pilaster strips beneath a bull-nosed sill, a flush stone apron, and an inscription in capitals that reads: "FAIRFORD FREE SCHOOL/THE GIFT OF/THE HONOURABLE MRS ELIZ FARMOR/AND MRS MARY BARKER/BUILT ANNO DOMINI MDCCXXXVIII".
The entrance features a doorcase with pilasters and a moulded cornice on consoles, leading to a 4-panel door with bolection moulded panels and a 6-pane fanlight, accessed by three steps. The elevation facing the churchyard has a similar three-window arrangement, with a central inserted door on the ground floor and a wall tablet commemorating the former Master of the School.
Local climate
Fairford Community Centre receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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