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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

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)