Numbers 1 to 4 and Attached Walls, Steps and Railings
NUMBERS 1 TO 4 AND ATTACHED WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 1-4, HOE GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113326
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 4 and Attached Walls, Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 4 AND ATTACHED WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 1-4, HOE GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113326
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 4 and Attached Walls, Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 4 AND ATTACHED WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 1-4, HOE GARDENS
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 4 AND ATTACHED WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 1-4, HOE GARDENS
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:
- SX4799454121
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654 HOE GARDENS, Hoe
740-1/57/273 (North side)
Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
and attached walls, steps and
railings
GV II
Planned mews terrace. Mid C19. Stucco with stucco detail;
asbestos slate parallel roofs with copings over party walls
and brick end and axial stacks. Double-depth plan, the 2
central houses each with 2 rooms at the front and central
entrances, the end houses each with 1 room at the front and
with entrance next to the central houses.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement; 2:3:3:2-window range. The
central houses have segmental-arched openings except for pair
of round-arched lights to each house over central doorway, the
end houses each with similar single light over doorway and
tripartite windows separated by a moulded entablature and
mid-floor string to left or right, otherwise this string is
plain. Other stucco detail includes: channelled rustication
and keyed arches with voussoirs to ground floor; rusticated
quoins to end houses at 1st floor, and most 1st-floor windows
with plain architraves or pilasters and keyed arches. Possibly
original horned sashes, overlights and panelled doors where
original.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls, boundary walls and
entrance bridges with ramped walls surmounted by wrought-iron
railings with arrow-head finials and turned stanchions with
turned finials.
Included as 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: SX4799454121
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473523
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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