51, Fonnereau Road

This is a house located at 51 Fonnereau Road in Ipswich, built between 1850 and 1860, with a refronting and internal alterations made in 1878. It was designed by the architectural firm Habershon & Pite for Mrs. Alfred Sheppard. The house is constructed from gault brick and features slate roofs, standing two stories tall with a dormer attic. The front brickwork has been whitewashed, and the facade is decorated in a half-timbered style, featuring gabled bays on either side of a central door bay. The upper floor is adorned with circles, quatrefoils, arches, and tension braces, mimicking the 'black-and-white style'.

The entrance door is set within a 4-centred recess, flanked by colored glass panels on either side. Above the door is a canted bay window, which has been fitted with 20th-century plate glass but retains a trefoiled upper frieze of lights. The ground-floor window bays are also canted and equipped with cross casements, and the bressumers are decorated. The first-floor bays have cross casements as well, featuring decorated lintels. The gable heads are finished with pierced bargeboards, and the roof is gabled with a central gabled dormer that contains a casement window. There are internal gable-end stacks on both the east and west sides.

Inside, the west bay on the ground floor has been converted into a dental surgery. The entrance hall showcases small-framed panelling, roll-moulded bridging beams, and a 4-centred fireplace with five quatrefoils in the frieze. The ground-floor staircase was replaced in the 1920s and features flat balusters, while the upper flights have 19th-century turned balusters. This house is part of a group of fine houses along Fonnereau Road.