Custom House / 46 And 48 Woolster Street / 58 And 60 Vauxhall Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW THE PARADE, Barbican 740-1/62/95 (North side) 01/05/75 Custom House (Formerly Listed as: PARADE, Plymouth Custom House) (Formerly Listed as: WOOLSTER STREET, Plymouth Nos.46 AND 48)

GV II*

Includes: Nos.58 AND 60 VAUXHALL STREET Barbican. Custom house with bonded warehouses. 1820. By David Laing (his 1st job as Surveyor of the Customs). Granite ashlar front with dressed granite detail; rear is Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings; roof hidden behind moulded parapet at the front and coped parapet at rear. Large rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys; symmetrical 5-window front with round-arched openings, those to 1st floor with recessed panels. Central 3 ground floor arches are open to a loggia with a 3-bay groined vault. Parapet has stepped centre with clockface. Rear is a 3-storey, 2:1:2-bay front with centre break. Keyed segmental arches to ground and 1st-floor left and right, most of the 2nd-floor openings have been widened. Wide central segmental-arched doorway and narrow doorways at left and right, the doorway on the right has original 6-panel door with flush bottom panels, the one on the left is now blocked. INTERIOR: not inspected except to note that the warehouses are vaulted to ground floor. A particularly fine example of this building type. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663).



Listing NGR: SX4818754223

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0996 IOE Records taken by Derek Hiscock; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Derek Hiscock. Source: Historic England Archive

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