1, ALBEMARLE VILLAS

1, ALBEMARLE VILLAS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1129964
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
1, ALBEMARLE VILLAS
Statutory Address:
1, ALBEMARLE VILLAS

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1129964
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
1, ALBEMARLE VILLAS
Statutory Address 1:
1, ALBEMARLE VILLAS

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:
1, ALBEMARLE VILLAS

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:
SX4592855101

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4555 ALBEMARLE VILLAS, Stoke
740-1/41/629 (North East side)
25/01/54 No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBEMARLE VILLAS, Devonport
No.1)

GV II

Villa in planned group. c1827 by John Foulston. Stucco with
stucco detail including plinth and mid-floor string; dry slate
hipped roofs with projecting eaves; tall rendered stacks, over
front and rear walls. L-shaped double-depth plan.
2 storeys; 2-window-range entrance front plus 2-window-range
service wing set back on the left. Original or copy 12-pane
hornless sashes. Large distyle in antae Doric porch with
unfluted columns and plain frieze under left-hand window;
doorway with panelled architrave with corner blocks set back
within, and with glazed and panelled door. Right-hand return
is 2-window range iron balconettes to 1st floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected but said to be very fine.
Forecourt railings of whole group included as separate item.
This is the most prominent villa in a fine group.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
673).



Listing NGR: SX4592855101

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
473164
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 673

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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