Three Crowns Public House

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 740-1/62/88 (North side) 01/05/75 No.12 Three Crowns Public House (Formerly Listed as: PARADE, Plymouth Three Crowns Public House)

GV II

Public house. Probably C17, extended or remodelled mid C19. MATERIALS: stucco with stucco detail; tarred slate roofs: mansard roof at the front behind a balustraded parapet with an entablature with architrave, widely-spaced modillions to frieze and a heavy moulded cornice; 3 mansard dormers with shallow curved roofs; brick end stacks over coped and shaped gable ends; rear wing with steep roof at right angles to main roof sweeping lower to its rear; large rubble lateral stack to its front towards left and a gabled dormer window breaking the eaves right of stack. PLAN: overall L-shaped plan, the lower rear wing presumably containing the hall of the original building. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic to front; slightly irregular 3-window range. Stucco detail includes: plinth and channelled rustication to ground floor with entablature with moulded cornice above, and rusticated quoins and moulded architraves with segmental heads to upper floors. Mid C19 12-pane hornless sashes. Ground floor has 2 similar but shorter 9-pane sashes and 2 doorways: under left-hand windows and between ground-floor windows towards right; C20 panelled and glazed doors. Right-hand return, including front of rear wing, has similar stucco detail and similar mid C19 sashes, and there is another similar sash to 1st floor of rear gable end. INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes remains of C18 dog-leg staircase with closed string, moulded handrail and Chinoiserie balustrade. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663).





Listing NGR: SX4819654232

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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

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project