Lockyer Court
Lockyer Court, 14 and 15, Lockyer Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113342
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Lockyer Court
- Statutory Address:
- Lockyer Court, 14 and 15, Lockyer Street
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113342
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Lockyer Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lockyer Court, 14 and 15, Lockyer Street
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:
- Lockyer Court, 14 and 15, Lockyer Street
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:
- SX4762654215
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30 March 2021 to clarify and to reformat the text to current standards
PLYMOUTH
SX4754
740-1/57/287
PLYMOUTH
The Hoe
LOCKYER STREET (west side)
Nos.14 AND 15 Lockyer Court
(Formerly Listed as: LOCKYER STREET, Plymouth Nos.14 AND 15 Prince of Wales Hospital)
01/05/75
GV
II
Orphanage, later hospital; two houses at end of planned terrace, the others largely rebuilt following damage during the Blitz. Early-mid C19 with C20 extension in Neo-Classical style. Stucco with stucco detail; roof behind parapets with moulded entablature, the parapet of No.15 (right) is taller; attic windows. Double-depth plan extended later to rear.
EXTERIOR: three storeys plus attic over basement, now with the only entrances; three:three-window range, No.15 with giant pilasters flanking upper-floor bays. Late C19 or C20 horned sashes, those to ground floor in round-arched openings. Stucco detail includes: channelled rustication to ground floor with impost string and voussoirs and string above and balustraded balcony with moulded cornice on square basement structure to far right. Right-hand two-storey return elevation is C20 in neo-classical style with three:two:three bays with balustraded parapet and two open pediments over paired giant Ionic pilasters; mostly blind openings.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain original features of interest.
Included for group value 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: SX4762654215
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473564
- 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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