Fairfield House

SU 6415 HAMBLEDON EAST STREET, NORTH SIDE 16/49 Fairfield House 6.3.67 II Regency house. 1821. Stucco; with joint marks. Low-pitched hipped slate roof, with wide plain eaves. Building with two symmetrical two-storeyed facades. The south-west has bow-shaped projections at each side and a projected centre, of 3.1.3 windows. Sashes in reveals, the ground-floor lights reaching terrace level. Plain doorway. The feature of the elevation is a verandah with large concave metal roof, supported on cast-iron columns, on a raised paved terrace, the centre having coupled supports linked by decorative ironwork. The south-east (entrance) front has four upper windows and two lower, the continuing verandah ending in decorative trellis work. The middle of the verandah is broken by a wide porch (of later date) of the Greek Doric Order, with coupled fluted columns at the front and pilasters at each side of a wide opening which has a slender framework, including four slender reeded pilasters, enclosing side windows and coupled doors, each of three panels. Above the porch is a plain wrought-iron balcony rail and the porch itself stands forward of the stone-flagged terrace. The north-east elevation is plain, with some blank openings: the north west side contains lower service wings, part of the early C19 and the remainder of the mid C19.

Listing NGR: SU6498415326