Corporation Buildings

10-15, LOOE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1113368
Date first listed:
19-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Corporation Buildings
Statutory Address:
10-15, LOOE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1113368
Date first listed:
19-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Corporation Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
10-15, LOOE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
CORPORATION BUILDINGS, 16-22, LOOE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
10-15, LOOE STREET
Statutory Address:
CORPORATION BUILDINGS, 16-22, 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 48135 54388

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW LOOE STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/13 (North side) 19/12/88 Nos.16-22 (Consecutive) Corporation Buildings

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Marked Nos 10-15 on OS map. Terrace of local authority housing with corner shop. Very early C20. Painted brick walls, concrete floors and staircases; dry slate stepped roofs with slightly projecting eaves, hipped at the ends; deep brick end stacks with stepped cornices. Double-depth plan with mews street at rear; each house has central ground-floor through passage and is divided into 1-bedroom tenements. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; each house has symmetrical 3-window front except for house on left with canted corner bay with doorway dividing shop windows of corner shop and house doorway on its right. Original 12-pane horned sashes with segmental heads; similar heads to central doorways with overlights and panelled doors. Shop has original pilastered 9-pane shop window to front and identical window to left-hand return; fluted consoles over the pilasters and moulded cornices over the fascia. Above the shop doorway is a round plaque inscribed: "SIR FRANCIS DRAKE IN THE YEAR OF THE SPANISH ARMADA OWNED A HOUSE AND GROUNDS ON THIS SITE AND PROBABLY HERE RESIDED". Rear of each house is a 4-window range with original windows: 12-pane sashes flanking single lights. Flat-roofed stores with planked doors linked by dwarf walls surmounted by steel balustrades. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of a complete block of practically unaltered early local authority housing. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663 & 664).



Listing NGR: SX4823454369

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Legacy System number:
473585
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 663-664

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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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