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SE 14 SE
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Menston
MAIN STREET (North Side)
Menston Old Hall (Fairfax Hall)

18.7.49.

II*

C17. A detached house, L-shaped and set well back from the road, with the longer range at right angles and the shorter running from the rear to the left (west). Squared, coursed stone. Stone slab roof. Gable end towards road: moulded coping running down to tall flanking chimneys with moulded setbacks. Stringcourse over first storey. One window (a five-light canted bay on ground and first floor, with splayed mullions and transoms; a small attic window in the gable of three lights with splayed mullions). Three windows on upper storey on west side, one window on upper storey on south, inner side; all with splayed mullions and round heads. The house was at one time owned by the Fairfax family and Sir Thomas Fairfax, the Parliamentary general, is said to have lived here.

Listing NGR: SE1673244023

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535083

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)