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THE ESPLANADE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS

THE ESPLANADE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1-8, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386468
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: THE ESPLANADE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: THE ESPLANADE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1-8, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386468
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: THE ESPLANADE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: THE ESPLANADE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1-8, THE PROMENADE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE ESPLANADE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1-8, THE PROMENADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX4759453944

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4753 THE PROMENADE, Hoe 740-1/66/301 The Esplanade Nos 1-8 (consec) and 25/01/54 forecourt walls & railings (Formerly Listed as: THE PROMENADE, Plymouth The Esplanade Nos 1-8 (consec))

GV II*

Planned terrace of villas. 1836 by George Wightwick. MATERIALS: stucco with stucco detail; dry slate mansard roofs, except for No.3 with asbestos slate, hipped at the ends, all behind interrupted parapet [central oval balustrade to No.1, and to end returns] with console cornice entablature; attic windows, some enlarged; stuccoed end and axial stacks with plinths and plain cornices. Palace front of Italianate influence. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 3:4:1:3:1:4:3-window front with end houses and centre pair broken forward and the 3 central bays further broken forward to ground and 1st floors. No.1 with original hornless sashes with glazing bars to 2nd floor and original fanlight heads and glazing bars to overlight above French windows to 1st floor. Simpler similar original heads to 1st-floor windows of No.2 (also to right-hand return). Otherwise mostly later sashes and C20 windows to No.7; French windows to ground-floor openings and to some 1st-floor windows. Stucco detail includes: channelled rustication to ground floor; round arched windows with moulded pilasters and arches to 1st floor; moulded eared architraves to 2nd floor; the principal 3-bay projections each with 1st-floor colonnade of 3 Corinthian half columns and moulded entablature with vases above; blind centre bays. Bulbous-shaped wrought-iron balconies to 1st floor. End return elevations each of 3 bays, the left-hand return with 2-storey central oriel with quadrant corners with bowed windows, flanking bays with blind windows, the other return with similar detail to recessed front bays. Rear entrance front has parapet, cornice strings; 1st-floor windows with moulded hoods on brackets; porches with moulded impost and parapet strings; coupled porches to centre (Nos 4 and 5); panelled doors and many original hornless sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to reflect the strong architectural character of the exterior. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stuccoed forecourt walls with plinth, band and square coping. U-shaped plan. Rear forecourt walls surmounted by original wrought-iron railings with turned finials and stanchions with acorn finials. A fine example of its type, distinguished by some Neo-Classical detail to the centre and end bays, more characteristic of Foulston than Wightwick. Part of an important planned group of terraces and villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick on the Hoe, a scheme which placed Plymouth in the forefront of town planning in the early/mid C19. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 665; Colvin H: A Bibliographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 888-890).

Listing NGR: SX4752353946

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 473855
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 888-890
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 665

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.