Fairfield House, Bath
Fairfield House | |
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General information | |
Type | Two storey ashlar villa |
Architectural style | Italianate |
Town or city | Bath |
Country | England |
Construction started | c1840 |
Completed | c1850 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | James Wilson |
Fairfield House, in
The Italianate two-storey house was built around 1850, probably by James Wilson, on Kelston Road in the northwest outskirts of the city.[1]
The house has significance to the UK
The rooms for Haile Selassie to meet contacts and supporters included a 'telephone room' or small office and the morning room. There were five principal bedrooms with rooms in the attic for servants.[2] There are numerous accounts of "Haile Selassie I was my next door neighbour" amongst people who were children in the Bath area during his residence.[4]
In 1943 it was used as a home for babies evacuated from Chippenham.[3] Haile Selassie gave the house to the City of Bath in 1958 during the visit when he was given the Freedom of the City.[2]
Fairfield House was used as a care home until 1993, when new room size requirements made it unsuitable for such use. Since then it has been used as a day centre by a number of groups including the Bath Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens' Association, Age Concern, the Ethiopian Coptic Church and a Rastafari church.[1][5][6]
In 2014 a community group, Friends of Fairfield House, were negotiating a
References
- ^ a b c d Historic England. "Fairfield, 2, Kelston Road (Grade II) (1395932)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ a b c Haber, Lutz. "The Emperor Haile Selassie I in Bath 1936 - 1940". Anglo-Ethiopian. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ a b "About Fairfield House". The House of His Majesty. Archived from the original on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "Haile Selassie". Last FM. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "Emperor Haile Selassie's gift to elderly too big a drain on council funds". Bath Chronicle. 7 January 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ "Welcome to Bath Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens Association". Bath Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens Association. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "Visit to Fairfield House". City Pulse. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ "Community Assets Transfer Programme". Bath and North East Somerset. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ "Fairfield House Bath CIC". Companies House. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
External links
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