Corder House and Sydenham House are two, adjacent,

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s on Fawcett Street, in

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. Designed by

Frank Caws Francis Edward Caws (21 August 1846, Seaview, Isle of Wight 8 April 1905, Sunderland) was an English architect. Caws was born the son of Silas Harvey Caws and his wife, Emma Matilda (née Cave). Frank married Catherine Francis Riddett of Ryde ...

in the

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style, they were constructed in brick from 1889–1891 by David and John Rankin with

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features by J. C. Edwards of

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Corder House

Corder House was constructed for a local drapery company, Corder's, owned by Alexander Corder. It is four storeys high, including the attic. The building has a ground floor panelled

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and a cusped

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with roll-moulded

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. The projecting

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s on the arcaded first floor are flanked by narrow lights with

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to the

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s and the elaborate heads over the central lights of the canted bays; all are with paired,

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ed cusped overlights and a dripstring. The second-floor central

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has panels with Gothic letters; the

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windows with paired arcaded top lights have shallow canted centres under the balustraded attic balconies. The elliptical-headed cusped attic arches to the recessed windows are flanked by scrolls and pilasters which rise to high shaped

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s with terracotta patterns, central oval lights, and raised segmental

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s. The dates 1856 and 1889 are in the outer panels at the

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level. The steeply pitched roof has a central lantern with Gothic lights and a high, conical roof.

Sydenham House

Sydenham House is four storeys high, including the attic. It has a moulded ground floor fascia and frieze below a full-width balcony with a stone balustrade. The first floor windows, tripartite in the centre and paired in the outer bays, have upper glazing bars in curvilinear heads below the swags and the second floor balcony which projects in the centre over panelled pilasters defining the first floor central bay. The square-headed second floor lights have raised arches with

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s, the central bay is defined by plain pilasters with scrolled pediment heads under a panelled band and outer scrolled pediments. The central attic gable has a raised segmental pediment over an eclectic

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of a wide arched light containing smaller cusped lights. Its steeply pitched roof has an end chimney.

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Corder House

Sydenham House

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