The Towers
THE TOWERS, 12 AND 14, FONNEREAU ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237506
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Towers
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWERS, 12 AND 14, FONNEREAU ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237506
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Towers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWERS, 12 AND 14, FONNEREAU ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWERS, 12 AND 14, FONNEREAU ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Ipswich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16265 45052
Details
IPSWICH
TM1645 FONNEREAU ROAD 642-0/7/10018 (North side) Nos.12 AND 14 The Towers
GV II
Pair of houses. c1860. Divided into 7 flats in late C20. White brick under slate roofs. Monumental symmetrical design. 3-4 storeys. Central element has a 2-window range. The ground floor has a pair of canted bay windows with 1/1 horned sashes, of which that to No.12 (right) retains pierced parapet. 2 horned sashes to first floor, that to No.12 with 8/8 glazing bars, to No.14 without glazing bars. Saw-toothed string course under second floor. 2 horned sashes in developed architraves under eaves, that to No.12 with 3/3 glazing bars, to No.14 without. Eaves course of brackets. Gabled roof with large common stack. Framing these central bays is one 4-storey square tower right and left, with shallow clasping pilasters. Ground floor contains entrance doors under arched heads. The first and second floors lit through small 4/4 sashes with raised surrounds. Glazing bars missing to first-floor sash of No.14. Viewing rooms at top of towers with 2 arched casements to each facet, with glazing bars. Projecting cornice above and a plain parapet with caps to clasping pilasters. Towers in turn framed by a 2-storey, single-bay block right and left. Both project from facade, have clasping pilasters and pedimented gable-ends. Ground floor with a canted bay window fitted with horned sashes without glazing bars. One Venetian window to first floor of each block, that to No.12 with a central 4/4 horned sash, to No.14 without glazing bars. INTERIOR: entrance to staircase blocked in No.12. Staircases are closed-string, with turned balusters and octagonal newels. Part of a group of fine houses in this road.
Listing NGR: TM1626545052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428803
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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