Fairwood is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. House.
Fairwood
- WRENN ID
- broken-granite-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fairwood, Fairwater, CF5 2PW
- OS grid reference
- ST 138 787
- Coordinates
- 51.50092, -3.24275
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Fairwood is a 17th-century house built in the Cotswold Vernacular style. It features cemented walls and a multi-gabled slate roof, with two storeys and an attic. The first floor has mullioned windows with ashlar dressings that create long horizontal bands on the gable ends of the entrance front. The heads of these first-floor windows are positioned at or above the eaves level of the main roof.
The entrance front has a low-sweeping roof over a central portico, with a stack on the ridge and two hipped dormers set low. The round-headed doorway has moulding that rises to the eaves level and is flanked by a 3-light mullioned window on each side. Each end of the house features a projecting wing with a wide gabled end, each with a stack on the ridge near the center.
The left wing includes an attic window with three lights, a first-floor window with eight lights featuring a central king mullion, and a ground floor with one 4-light window and two 3-light windows. The right wing has a 6-light mullioned window on the first floor, and on the ground floor, there is a doorway flanked by a 2-light window on the right and a 3-light window on the left. Additionally, the left wing has a single-storey L-shaped projection with a wall that contains a round-headed doorway connecting the left gable end to the left wing of the house.
The interior was not inspected during the resurvey.
Local climate
Fairwood sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
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