24, 25 and 26, Adelaide Street

24, 25 and 26, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JG

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1129954
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
24, 25 and 26, Adelaide Street
Statutory Address:
24, 25 and 26, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1129954
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
24, 25 and 26, Adelaide Street
Statutory Address 1:
24, 25 and 26, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JG

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
24, 25 and 26, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JG

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:
SX4686454547

Details

SX4654NE
740-1/56/707

PLYMOUTH
Stonehouse
ADELAIDE STREET (North side)
Nos. 24, 25 and 26

GV

II

Three houses in planned terrace. Mid C19 to designs by John Foulston. Stucco with some stucco detail; asbestos slate roofs with projecting eaves over simple entablature, No. 25 with its original dentilled cornice; three roof dormers; rendered end stacks to Nos. 24 and 25 (left). Double-depth plan.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys, each house a two-window range. Original twelve-pane hornless sashes now replaced with horned copies to No. 25 and to ground floor of No. 26; four-pane horned sashes to No. 24; late C20 windows to upper floors No. 26. Pilasters flanking each front except that corner pilaster on right has no moulded capital; mid-floor band above ground floor. Nos. 24 and 25 have pilastered doorways with moulded hoods on consoles; overlights and panelled doors; doorway of No. 26 to pilastered two-window right-hand return.

INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to retain original features of interest.
A rare survival of a planned group by Foulston, in a simpler version of his work around the Hooe.

Listing NGR: SX4686454547

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
473156
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 24, 25 and 26, Adelaide Street

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