Numbers 5 to 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Railings
NUMBERS 5 TO 8 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 5-8, HOE GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113329
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 5 to 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 5 TO 8 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 5-8, HOE GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113329
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 5 to 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 5 TO 8 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 5-8, 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 5 TO 8 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 5-8, 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:
- SX4799554137
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654 HOE GARDENS, Hoe
740-1/57/274 (South side)
Nos.5-8 (Consecutive)
and attached forecourt walls, steps
and railings
GV II
Planned mews terrace. Mid-late C19. Stucco with stucco detail;
dry slate or asbestos slate roofs with slightly-projecting
eaves, the roofs of the end houses higher; stepped brick end
and axial stacks. Double-depth plan, Nos 5-8 each with 2 rooms
at the front and with a central entrance hall, No.8 with 1
room at the front and its entrance hall on the left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement; Nos 5-7 each house with a
symmetrical 3-window front; No.8 with 2-window range. Probably
original horned sashes, those to ground floor, and doorways,
under segmental arches and within channelled rustication,
those to 1st floor with moulded architraves rising from
mid-floor strings except for central oriels on brackets to Nos
5-7 and with pilastered tripartite windows and moulded
entablature, and 2nd floor with similar string and single or
paired pilastered lights with keyed round arches.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls, boundary walls and
ramped walls flanking entrance bridges surmounted by
wrought-iron railings with arrow-head finials and with turned
stanchions with turned finials.
Included as part of an important planned group of terraces and
villas on the Hoe, a scheme which placed Plymouth in the
forefront of town planning in the early/mid C19.
Listing NGR: SX4799554137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473528
- 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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