NUMBER 154 AND 156 AND RAILINGS AND STEPS TO NUMBER 154

NUMBER 154 AND 156 AND RAILINGS AND STEPS TO NUMBER 154, 154 AND 156, DURNFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117101
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 154 AND 156 AND RAILINGS AND STEPS TO NUMBER 154
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 154 AND 156 AND RAILINGS AND STEPS TO NUMBER 154, 154 AND 156, DURNFORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117101
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 154 AND 156 AND RAILINGS AND STEPS TO NUMBER 154
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 154 AND 156 AND RAILINGS AND STEPS TO NUMBER 154, 154 AND 156, DURNFORD STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 154 AND 156 AND RAILINGS AND STEPS TO NUMBER 154, 154 AND 156, DURNFORD 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:: SX4637953703

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4653NW DURNFORD STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/65/772 (West side) 25/01/54 Nos.154 AND 156 and railings and steps to No.154

GV II

Pair of town houses. Late C18. Stuccoed fronts; rubble to right-hand return with slatehanging to 1st floor of rear wing; steep dry slate roof with 4 hipped dormers behind plain parapet; brick end stack to left of each house. Double-depth plan, front rooms to centre of pair and entrance halls at left and right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; each house a 3-window range. Original hornless sashes with glazing bars to No.156 (left), later horned sashes to No.154. Each house has its original doorway with fluted pilasters and open pediments above blind spoked fanlights; panelled doors and reveals; tall stair sash with glazing bars to right-hand return. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubble walls and dressed stone steps with flanking wrought-iron railings in front of doorway to No.154. Part of a planned late Georgian street, laid out in 1773. HISTORY: No.156 is reputed to have been the home of Hardy who was present at the death of Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 672).

Listing NGR: SX4637953703

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Legacy System number:: 473357
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 672

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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.