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
Country
England
Date first listed
4 June 1952
Type
Community centre
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

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