Barbican Antiques Centre

Description

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

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW VAUXHALL STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/104 (South side) Nos.82 AND 84 Barbican Antiques Centre

GV II

2 pairs of warehouses, now used as 1 shop. Mid/late C19. Plymouth limestone rubble with brick dressings including brick mid-floor band to upper floors, stucco to ground floor of street front; hipped slate parallel roofs, each roof divided by a coping. Overall a square-plan block, probably built in 2 phases. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 6-window paired street front with splayed corners. Segmental arches over 6-pane windows to upper floors, C20 windows with leaded glazing to ground floor, all in deep reveals. The stuccoed shopfrontage has a moulded capital string and a plain fascia surmounted by a cornice; there are 2 narrow shop doorways and a window to either side of each. Right-hand return has loading frontage of 2 warehouses, wider frontage on the left; each nearly symmetrical 2-window range frontage has central loading doorways; wider doorways to ground floor, the right-hand doorway widened; loading boom above eaves. The other warehouse has had its right-hand doorway converted to a doorway and the window above blocked with rubble. INTERIOR: not inspected.





Listing NGR: SX4825354260

Content

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