Description

TQ 07 SE FAIRHOLME

787/43/10043 Summerhouse

GV II

Summerhouse in centre of gardens: 1935 by T Cecil Howitt, as part of his Fairholme Estate of charitable housing. Timber-framed on York stone plinths, with brick infil nogging to gable ends and bellcast tiled roofs. The building forms an arch over the central path leading to the community centre. The gable ends have bargeboards carved with fruit and vines, and downcast finials. The sides open, the thick wall and sill plates linked by turned balusters as well as thick posts.
INTERIOR: a timber ceiling, and fixed seats the length of either side. The summerhouse is the most overtly picturesque of the elements of the Fairholme. In its mixture of vernacular and neo-Georgian elements, and in giving to Raymond Unwin's ideas of angled corners and open layouts a greater formality and a symmetrical nature, Fairholme is an excellent and well detailed example of the development of ideas on low-cost housing and town planning in the 1930s.

Listing NGR: TQ0902173676

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657305

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)