NUMBERS 1 TO 15 AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS AND RAILINGS

NUMBERS 1 TO 15 AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1-15, ALFRED STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129983
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 15 AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 15 AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1-15, ALFRED STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129983
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 15 AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1 TO 15 AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1-15, ALFRED STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 15 AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1-15, ALFRED STREET

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:: SX 47571 54155

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 ALFRED STREET, Hoe 740-1/57/254 (North side) Nos.1-15 (Odd) and attached road-frontage walls and railings

GV II

Planned terrace of houses. c1820s-30s, possibly by Foulston. Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate or asbestos slate roofs behind parapet with moulded entablature and cornice, the right-hand house with turned balustrade to centre of parapet; segmental-roofed dormer windows; deep brick axial stacks and end stack to left; many old clay pots. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic over basement; each house with 2-window-range front and doorway on its right. Original stucco detail includes: channelled rustication to ground floors of 5 houses on the left with moulded mid-floor string above; plain string to houses on right; pilastered doorways with moulded capitals and cornices; and 5 houses on left and house at far right with moulded window architraves to 1st floor. Most houses with replacement horned sashes with glazing bars, some with panelled doors. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ramped and coped stuccoed end walls to forecourt with road-frontage plinth, most with wrought-iron railings with spear-head finials and turned stanchions and with similar railings flanking steps to doorways. Included as part of an important planned group of terraces and villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick on the Hoe, a scheme which placed Plymouth in the forefront of town planning in the early C19.

Listing NGR: SX4755454163

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Legacy System number:: 473175
Legacy System:: LBS

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