Description

GEORGE STREET
1.
1577
(West Side)
No 84 (Suffolk Towers)
SZ 5992 2/217

II

2.
Large detached villa circa 1850/60 in Osborne style. Two storeys and
attics faced in coursed cement with flanking vermiculated coursed
pilasters with bands between storeys though they are at different
levels due to sloping site. Superimposed flat fronted bow windows
either side of tower porch, three lights each, sash, later glazing
bars, pilasters carried down into panelled aprons, frieze and cornice
breaking forward to centre, fretted blind cases. Semi attic window
breaking through eaves with ornamented bargeboard gable and finial.
The tower porch is in three stages the upper one rising clear of the
roof. Flanked on the ground floor by vermiculated pilaster strips and
on the first and second floor by Doric pilasters doubled at corners,
frieze and cornice to each floor. The entrance consists of recessed
double doors, panelled below with two round headed lights above and
a semi circular fanlight, flanking pilasters with moulded arch and
keystone over. The first floor has two narrow round headed windows
separated and flanked by Doric pilasters. The third floor is four
square and repeats the second floor treatment on each side, crowned
by a balustrade with urns to the corner piers. Set back behind the main
hipped slate roof with wide eaves, is an extra storey with one sash recessed
window with later glazing bars.

Listing NGR: SZ5927192519

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26511633

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)