Number 1 and 3 and Attached Forecourt Railings
NUMBER 1 AND 3 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 1 AND 3, ALBERT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129981
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 and 3 and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 1 AND 3 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 1 AND 3, ALBERT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129981
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 and 3 and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 1 AND 3 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 1 AND 3, ALBERT ROAD
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:
- NUMBER 1 AND 3 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 1 AND 3, ALBERT ROAD
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:
- SX4590455505
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4555 ALBERT ROAD, Stoke
740-1/41/638 (South side)
Nos.1 AND 3
and attached forecourt railings
GV II
Asylum (orphanage), now offices. Mid-late C19, extended 1879.
Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate hipped roofs, the centre
roof on bracketed cornice, the lower flanking roofs on
modillion cornices over a moulded entablature; 1 rendered
stack left of centre; cast-iron ogee gutters.
PLAN: overall U-shaped double-depth plan, the original part
with 2 rooms at the front flanking a central entrance hall,
the flanking wings each with 1 room at the front and deep rear
projection.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and 3 storeys; overall symmetrical
recessed 5-window original front plus flanking 2-storey wings
with wide tripartite windows. Original sashes with glazing
bars within moulded architraves to central part and to returns
and rear; paired sashes to centre, and left and right, of 3rd
floor. Front of each wing has tripartite window to each floor:
ground floor with Tuscan mullions to Venetian window; 1st
floor with Tuscan mullions plus entablature, which has
pedimented centre break, and the 2nd floor with recessed
moulded architraves and moulded sill. Other stucco detail
includes: plinth; channelled rustication to wings and central
tripartite round-arched doorway; moulded entablature above
ground floor; mid-floor panel above 1st floor; moulded string
near heads of 2nd-floor windows and mid-floor cornice above.
Panel to right-hand wing bears the inscription: "For the
destitute female orphans of sailors, soldiers and Royal
Marines; Patroness the Queen".
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to reflect the high quality
of the exterior.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: simple low wrought-iron railings with
arrow-head finials.
Listing NGR: SX4590455505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473173
- 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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