Description

BARKING BATTISFORD ROAD
TM 05 SE

2/27 Fairfax House

9.12.55
II

House, c.1600. 2-cell lobby-entrance plan. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-
framed and pebble-dashed; the 1st floor gable is jettied to left. Plaintiled
roof with original chimney of narrow red bricks; a rectangular base with
moulded brick cornice, and a shaft of narrow gault bricks. C20 small-pane
sashes and gabled entrance porch with panelled door. Good quality timber-
framing, unusually complete and well-exposed throughout. Chamfered ceiling
joists, those to the attic floor are on edge. Close-studding with several
blocked mullioned windows; in the parlour and chamber above ovolo-moulded and
originally glazed, and over the hall diamond-mullioned and unglazed. Good
unaltered open fireplaces, wide with a cambered lintel in the hall, and with
an elliptical head in the parlour. A single-storey rear service wing may be a
vestige of an earlier house. Formerly known as Spalding Hall. The Revd. John
Fairfax, Rector of Needham Market until ejected in 1662, lived here after a
period of imprisonment for his religious convictions, and died in 1700.

Listing NGR: TM0714253186

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525108

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014