47-53, Adelaide Street and The Famous Firkin Public House, 2, Adelaide Place
47-53, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129958
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 47-53, Adelaide Street and The Famous Firkin Public House, 2, Adelaide Place
- Statutory Address:
- 47-53, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JG
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129958
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 47-53, Adelaide Street and The Famous Firkin Public House, 2, Adelaide Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 47-53, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JG
- Statutory Address 2:
- The Famous Firkin Public House, 2, Adelaide Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JD
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.
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:
- 47-53, Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JG
- Statutory Address:
- The Famous Firkin Public House, 2, Adelaide Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth, PL1 3JD
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:
- SX4670554505
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/02/2018
SX4654NE
740-1/56/711
PLYMOUTH
Stonehouse
ADELAIDE STREET (South side)
Nos.47-53 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as: ADELAIDE STREET, Stonehouse, Nos.47-54 (Consecutive) The Adelaide Inn)
01/05/75
GV
II
Includes: No.2 The Famous Firkin Public House ADELAIDE PLACE Stonehouse.
Planned terrace of small houses, one of which is a public house. Mid C19 to designs by John Foulston. Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate or asbestos slate roofs behind stuccoed parapet, most with moulded cornice, and the end houses with altered pediments; brick end stacks.
Double-depth plan, each house with one room at the front and its entrance to one side. Two storeys, each house a two-window range except the end houses, each of which is a one-window range. Original twelve-pane hornless sashes to Nos. 52-53, otherwise later horned sashes or late C20 windows. Ground floor window openings are round-arched within recessed round-arched panels, except for end houses with two-storey panels. Pilastered doorways have moulded entablature; panelled doors where original.
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: SX4670554505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473160
- 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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