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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

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