51, Fonnereau Road

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TM1644NW FONNEREAU ROAD 642-0/1/10022 (South side) No.51

GV II

House. 1850-60, refronted and internally altered 1878. By Habershon & Pite. For Mrs Alfred Sheppard. Gault brick; slate roofs. 2 storeys and dormer attic. Front brickwork whitewashed. Applied half-timbered facade consisting of a gabled bay either side of central door bay, and the whole upper floor decorated with circles, quatrefoils, arched and tension braces in imitation of 'black-and-white style'. Door within a 4-centred recess flanked right and left by coloured glass panels. Above is a canted bay window with C20 plate glass but retaining a trefoiled upper frieze of lights. Ground-floor of window bays are canted and fitted with cross casements. Decorated bressumers. First-floor bays also with cross casements and also with decorated lintels. Pierced bargeboards to gable heads. Gabled roof with a central gabled dormer with a casement. Internal gable-end stacks east and west. INTERIOR: west bay on ground floor converted to dental surgery. Entrance hall with small-framed panelling, roll-moulded bridging beams and a 4-centred fireplace with 5 quatrefoils in the frieze. Ground-floor of staircase replaced in 1920s: flat balusters; upper flights with C19 turned balusters. Part of a group of fine houses in this road. (Brown C, Haward B, Kindred R: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 117).

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Listing NGR: TM1622744996