Numbers 5 and 7 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
NUMBERS 5 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 5 AND 7, HOLYROOD PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113331
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 5 and 7 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 5 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 5 AND 7, HOLYROOD PLACE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00191/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113331
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 5 and 7 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 5 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 5 AND 7, HOLYROOD PLACE
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.
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 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 5 AND 7, HOLYROOD PLACE
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:
- SX4757854015
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4754 HOLYROOD PLACE, Hoe
740-1/57/277 (East side)
Nos.5 AND 7
and attached forecourt walls and
railings
GV II
Pair of houses in planned terrace. Mid/late C19. Stucco with
stucco detail; dry slate roof with projecting eaves; 2 attic
windows; stuccoed end stacks with remnant moulded cornices and
many old clay pots. Double-depth-plan mirror-image pair, each
house with 1 room at the front.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic over basement; overall
symmetrical 4-window front. No.7 (right) has original hornless
sashes with glazing bars; No.5 has had the glazing bars
removed; tripartite sashes under segmental arches to ground
floor. Other stucco detail includes: key blocks to ground
floor openings; sill strings; pilastered openings with moulded
hoods on consoles to 1st floor; moulded architraves and
flanking bolection-moulded panels to shorter 2nd floor and
large console under stepped eaves on the left. Central pair of
round-arched pilastered doorways and panelled doors with plain
fanlights over.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls and entrance bridge
surmounted by cast-iron railings with roundel frieze and
spear-head finials.
Included as part of an important 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: SX4757854015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473530
- 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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