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Fairfax House is a Georgian townhouse located at No. 27, Castlegate, York, England, near Clifford's Tower and York Castle Museum. It was probably built in the early 1740s for a local merchant and in 1759 it was purchased by Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley , who arranged for the interior to be remodelled by John Carr .
Further along the street lies Fairfax House, another Grade I listed Georgian house, which is open to the public as a museum, run by York Civic Trust. R. K. Booth described Castlegate as "outwardly perhaps the more interesting of the two". [1] The house was commissioned by Peter Johnson, who served as Recorder of York from 1759 to 1789. [2]
In the Georgian period, Castlegate was a desirable location, and the mansions of Fairfax House and Castlegate House were erected. It was shortened slightly in 1826, when the castle's prison was extended. The street lost importance after 1881, when Clifford Street was constructed to its west, providing a more direct route out of the city.
Among the buildings accessible in whole or part to the public today are Buxton Crescent, Newark Town Hall, virtually all his bridges, Harewood House, Tabley House, Clifton House (now a museum in Rotherham), Lytham Hall and Fairfax House at 27 Castlegate York, now the headquarters of York Civic Trust.
York Civic Trust was founded in 1946 in a meeting at the Mansion House between four residents of York: John Bowes Morrell, Oliver Sheldon, Eric Milner-White and Noel Terry. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The impetus for the founding of the Civic Trust came from an increasing concern about post-war planning and over-development.
Construction of the octagonal chapter house in the Decorated style (completed by 1296) begins. 1291 – Construction of the nave of York Minster begins. [5] 1295 - The city returns two members to parliament. [6] 1298–1304 – King Edward houses the national Exchequer (at the castle) and Chancery (at the abbey) in York. [8]
William Green's 1669 patent for 1,150 acres (4.7 km 2) encompassed most of the peninsula between Dogue Creek and Accotink Creek, along the Potomac River.Although this property was sub-divided and sold in the early 18th century, it was reassembled during the 1730s to create the central portion of Col. William Fairfax's 2,200-acre (8.9 km 2) plantation of Belvoir Manor.
Renaissance composer Robert Fayrfax (Fairfax) was a native of the village. Fairfax House, the most prominent and grand property in the village, was home to the Fairfax Family. In the 1870s Wilson described Deeping Gate as: a hamlet in Maxey parish, Northampton; at the boundary with Lincoln, 1 mile SE of Market-Deeping. Real property, £1, 867 ...