Description

FAIRFIELD ROAD 1. 5124 Shortmead House TL 14 NE 2/5 20.5.52 II 2. Circa 1780-90. Gault brick, 2 storeys. Five sash windows, the centre one of 3 lights in a slight projection. Rectangular stone stepped entrance platform with Tower of the Winds columned open porch with corniced top enclosing a wide 6 panel door flanked by side lights, beneath a large, semi-circular 'Adam' leaded fanlight. Simple cornice and parapet. Side elevations have 3 windows, mostly blocked. Projecting wings to rear. Interior retains contemporary decorations Entry hall goes from front to back of house with rooms to east and west. Original plain balustered curved staircase. South-east room has good carved white marble mantelpiece, with delicate corner panels of cherubs and low relief wheatear etc. Ornament to frieze and jambs and contemporary enriched polished steel grate with pierced valance and urns to hobs. North-east room has similar simple mantelpiece with corner blocks ornamented with musical trophies. Contemporary ribbed cast iron grate with hobs. South-west room has a simpler mantelpiece of the same type with rosette corner blocks. Early C19 cast iron grate with canted reveals to sides and top and bowed grate bars. All rooms with contemporary cornices, shutters, dadoes etc.

Listing NGR: TL1892345832

External Links

• Shortmead House at Wikipedia
• Shortmead House official website
• Wikidata Q7502205

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)