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 Fairfax House, Castlegate York, Co. North Yorkshire
 Fairfax House Exterior
A dignified Georgian Town house, Fairfax House has been carefully restored to its former glory and its interiors remodelled to outline the Georgian period in York .
The house dates back to around 1745 with an elegant portico modified in the 19th Century it was designed by John Carr and was built the Viscount Fairfax of York as a wedding present to his daughter. In more recent times this fabulous building was grossly misused as a cinema and dance hall throughout the 20th Century. From 1982 to 1984, Fairfax House was remarkably restored by the York Civic Trust.
The stunning interiors include some of the finest plasterworks and carved woodwork in Yorkshire. Fairfax is filled with Doric columns, stucco ceilings, rococo features and decorative door gables and furnished with one of the finest personal collections of 18th Century furniture in the country, belonging to one of the members of the Civic Fairfax House Interior
Trust who saved the house, confectioner Noel Terry.
Some rooms of the house are laid out as scenes from an 18th century household, while others simple exhibit some exquisite collections of heirlooms and artefacts from this period. The lavishly decorated Dining room is set out for a Georgian Christmas feast with fine silverware and iced sugar fruits. The fabulous ceiling, with its central motif took over 1,000 man-hours to restore, painstakingly cleaning and scraping away paint from its days as a dancehall. Elsewhere in the house the Kitchens are remodelled to create the atmosphere of 18th century servant’s quarters and the bedrooms and stunning Saloon are also decked out in furnishings Viscount Fairfax would have been accustomed to and there is also a large and interesting collection of ‘John Bull’ satire strips to be seen.
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