Invicta Hotel / 11 And 12 Osborne Place

Description

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

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 LOCKYER STREET, Hoe 740-1/57/290 (West side) Invicta Hotel

GV II

Includes: Nos.11 AND 12 OSBORNE PLACE Hoe. Pair of houses in a planned street, now an hotel. Mid C19. Stucco; asbestos slate mansard roof with 4 dormer windows over a moulded parapet cornice; stuccoed end and axial stacks with moulded cornices and many old pots. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; symmetrical 4-window front with late C19 horned sashes. Stucco detail includes: rusticated quoins; tetrastyle Corinthian porch with moulded cornice surmounted by a latticed balustrade repeated over flanking slightly-projecting tripartite windows linked by a string; 1st floor with moulded eared architraves and moulded hoods, and 2nd floor with sill string, round sill brackets and eared architraves to shorter window openings. Central pair of segmental-arched doorways with panelled doors and overlights. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. 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.





Listing NGR: SX4763054054

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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