42-45 and 45A, Adelaide Street

42-45 and 45A, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1129957
Date first listed:
18-Sept-1992
List Entry Name:
42-45 and 45A, Adelaide Street
Statutory Address:
42-45 and 45A, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1129957
Date first listed:
18-Sept-1992
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
42-45 and 45A, Adelaide Street
Statutory Address 1:
42-45 and 45A, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JF

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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.

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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:
42-45 and 45A, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JF

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:
SX4676254513

Details

SX4654NE
740-1/56/710

PLYMOUTH
Stonehouse
ADELAIDE STREET (South side)
Nos.42-45 AND 45A (Consecutive)

(Formerly Listed as: ADELAIDE STREET Nos.42-45 (Consecutive))

18/09/92

GV
II

Part of planned terrace of houses. Mid C19 to designs by John Foulston. Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate or asbestos slate roofs behind stuccoed parapets, Nos. 43 and 44 with moulded entablature, No. 45 (right) with pediment and moulded entablature over pilasters; roof dormers; some brick end stacks. Double-depth plan, each house with one room at the front and entrance to one side.

EXTERIOR: two storeys plus attic; each house a two-window range, except for No.45, which is a one-window range. Four-pane hornless sashes to No.45, possibly the original sashes with glazing bars removed; No. 44 with horned copies of original twelve-pane hornless sashes, the ground-floor sash also with spoked fanlight head; other windows are late C20, all in original openings, the ground-floor window openings with round-arched heads with recessed round-arched panels. Central pair of pilastered doorways with moulded hoods on consoles to Nos. 43 and 44; overlights.

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: SX4676254513

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
473159
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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