FEATURED BLOCK Features A place in the
Fair Mile opened as an asylum in September 1870. Designed by leading Victorian architect Charles Henry Howell and with grounds
designed by Robert Marnock, the original buildings housed up to 500 patients. The main building adjoined offices, a superintendent’s house, a lodge and a number of cottages. A farm provided fresh produce for the inmates and a chapel provided for their spiritual needs.
Today, Fair Mile remains a fine example of grandiose Victorian architecture featuring crow step gables, red and blue brick detailing, stone sills and mullions and sash windows, all renovated as part of Thomas Homes’ new residential development in the heart of the
Thomas Homes’ Fair Mile development in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside is making new use of a former Victorian asylum
Oxfordshire countryside. The 131 new leasehold homes housed within the Grade 11 listed former asylum buildings are at the heart of the larger Cholsey Meadows scheme which provides a total of 350 new homes alongside a wide range of facilities. These include:
Shop/café/restaurant
Great Hall complete with stage and a chapel – both also used by the local community,
Day nursery offering professional pre school care
Cricket pitch and pavilion country
Children’s play area Allotments for residents’ use Offices to rent
Grounds – 100 acres of open fields and marshland, as well as access to a nature reserve and more than a mile of the River Thames
The homes at Fair Mile are a mix of apartments and houses with 39 of these designated as affordable housing - a mix of rent and part ownership - comprising a mix of self-contained units and blocks of apartments. All are built to high quality and
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