Description

IPSWICH

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).

IPSWICH

GATACRE ROAD
Suffolk Record Office and Theatre

See under: Suffolk Record Office and Theatre BRAMFORD ROAD.

Listing NGR: TM1622744996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554731

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)