18, Carr Street

IPSWICH TM1644NE CARR STREET 642-0/2/10011 (South side) No.18

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Shop and offices. 1888. By TW Cotman. For Mr Scheurmann. Red brick laid in Flemish bond. Machine-tiled roof. Flemish style, the gable-end facing the street. 4 storeys in 3-window range. Narrow facade. Late C20 plate-glass shop front with marble pilasters right and left supporting cast-iron railings. First floor with one semicircular window right and left each fitted with two 2/2 horned sashes. Between them is a moulded arched recess containing a French window with glazing bars and margin lights. Upper 2 floors bisected by a flat pilaster and bordered by one polygonal colonnette right and left of elevation. Second floor with two 8/8 horned sashes set within separate moulded arched recesses and fronted by cast-iron railings. Third floor with 2 similar windows. Elaborate shaped gable with finial. Gabled roof. Large internal gable-end stack to west. (Brown C, Haward B, Kindred B: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 86).

Listing NGR: TM1653144599