Listed Building: THE FAIRWAY (101926)

SZ 0892 ST ANTHONY'S ROAD (East Side) 14/155 No 3 (The Fairway) II Villa. 1908. By H E Hawker and Arnold Mitchell for Alfred Hutchins. Red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor; fish-scale tile-hung above. Plain tile roof. 2 Storeys with attic and cellar. 2 x 5 bays with tourelle at south-west corner. Wooden mullion-and-transom windows with casements, the upper lights and some others leaded, tiled off-sets marking floor levels, and oversailing eaves. Entrance front: left, entrance, bay has battered side wall; large, scarlet-brick, segmental arch to internal porch which has panelled door with decorative glass and 3-light window on its right, both under flat brick arches; 4-light canted bay window to 1st floor; corbelled 4-light attic window under hip of roof. Right bay has tourelle with 3-light windows on each floor and swept conical roof with finial. Between the 2 bays, lateral stack with triple diagonally-set flues. Garden front: irregular, the bays expressing plan. Ashlar plinth band and ground-floor cill band. Doors are glazed with glazing bars. Verandah connecting tourelle and two 2-storey bay windows is tiled and has wooden posts to pent roof (which forms 1st floor off-set) and above its left end a tile-hung balcony. Left bay (drawing room), has door on right of tourelle and door onto balcony from tourelle. Bay 2 (dining room) has canted bay window to ground floor and rectangular bay window above with balcony door. Bay 3 (billiard room) has door with 2-light window above on left of 2-storey canted bay window, all under tile-hung gable with corbelled 3-light attic window. Bay 4 (day nursery) has door with side-lights all having overlights. Bay 5, under catslide roof with lst-floor oculus, has canted conservatory projecting forward on ground floor with leaded casement windows of 2 lights on left and 3-over-5 lights to centre under glazed gable; glass roof now covered by felt tiles. Roof hipped, with tall, double-corniced stacks. Interior: retains contemporary fireplaces, panelled doors, picture rails and cornices. The stair/entrance hall is panelled and has fireplace, decoratively-glazed windows and plain, square section balusters to stair. Elaborate decorative fireplaces with over-mirrors to billiard room (which retains marble floor-plates for billiard table) and to drawing room (which retains original gold-starred ceiling paper). The house formed part of an estate developed 1907-14 largely to provide holiday homes for Scottish gentry, although No.3 was built for A Hutchins, an American. Listing NGR: SZ0873692437

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