Chandos House and Attached Steps
CHANDOS HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, 24, FONNEREAU ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247681
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Chandos House and Attached Steps
- Statutory Address:
- CHANDOS HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, 24, FONNEREAU ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247681
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Chandos House and Attached Steps
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANDOS HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, 24, 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:
- CHANDOS HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, 24, 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 16184 45096
Details
IPSWICH
TM1645 FONNEREAU ROAD 642-0/7/10021 (North East side) No.24 Chandos House and attached steps
GV II
House, now flats. 1869. Builder E Gibbons. Converted into 8 flats late C20. White brick; slate roofs. Irregular facade in 2 parts. West half is of 3 storeys and basement, east half of 2 storeys, dormer attic and basement. West part with a 2-storey canted bay window fitted with 2-light casement windows. Ground floor with rusticated pilasters and shouldered window lintels; first floor with banded brick pilasters and arched window heads; hipped roof over modillion cornice. Attic storey has two 2/2 horned sashes under segmental heads sandwiched between advanced banded and decorated brick piers rising above gable to block parapets supported by side volutes and with urn finials. Gabled roof. East part contains the entrance door: 4-panelled door, the upper 2 panels glazed, set in a recess behind a 4-centred arch on extravagant console brackets. Above is a 2-light casement under an arched head, and in the gabled roof is a 2/2 horned sash in a dormer with a deep lugged segmental head. Next bay is defined by wide brick pilasters, rusticated to ground floor and with a tall recessed panel to first floor. 2 ground-floor casement windows under a shouldered lintel. 2 similar windows to first floor, with extended aprons and arched heads. Under eaves the pilasters sprout a pair of curved consoles, repeated in return angles. 2 dormers in roof with lugged segmental heads containing 2/2 horned sashes. 2 stacks visible to east side. The house is on an elevated site and is approached up a flight of steps with curving brick side walls. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with turned balusters and a ramped and wreathed handrail. Newel in form of a twisted baluster. Doors to principal rooms blocked, and all other doors replaced late C20. Part of a group of fine houses in this road.
Listing NGR: TM1618445096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428998
- 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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