Corporation Buildings and Attached Walls
CORPORATION BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1-15, LOOE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113367
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Corporation Buildings and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CORPORATION BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1-15, LOOE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113367
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Corporation Buildings and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORPORATION BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1-15, LOOE STREET
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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:
- CORPORATION BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1-15, LOOE 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:
- SX 48197 54389
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW LOOE STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/12 (North side) 19/12/88 Nos.1-15 (Consecutive) Corporation Buildings and attached walls
GV II
Marked Nos 1-9 on OS map. Terrace of local authority flats. Completed 1898. Painted brick walls, stone sills, concrete floors, stairs and landings; slate roofs with projecting eaves; clay tile cresting and shaped finials; 7 gables with collared and arch-braced trusses [over the paired windows of 2 out of 3 fronts]; deep brick axial stacks with stepped cornices. Early local authority housing, commemorated on plaque attached to Nos 115-131 (consec) Vauxhall Street (qv); the houses are split horizontally by occupation, with extra access to the upper floor. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with houses stepping up the street; stepped corbelled segmental arches over alternating paired and single 9/2-pane horned sash windows. Ground floor has plinth and shaped string over openings with similar arches over similar paired sashes alternating with paired doorways with plain segmental arches, but single doorway at right and doorway of No.15 on return at left-hand end; tall overlights and 4-panel doors. Rear also unaltered and has dwarf boundary walls linked to series of flying concrete staircases with steel balustrades up to landings and doorways with 4-pane overlights and partly glazed doors, each flanked by sash and small light; similar arrangement of windows and doors to ground floor. INTERIORS not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES include brick walls to street frontage and walls and staircases described above. Part of a complex of practically unaltered early local authority housing. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663 & 664).
Listing NGR: SX4817854392
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473584
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 663-664
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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