Royal Eye Infirmary
ROYAL EYE INFIRMARY, APSLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129984
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Eye Infirmary
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL EYE INFIRMARY, APSLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129984
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Eye Infirmary
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL EYE INFIRMARY, APSLEY 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:
- ROYAL EYE INFIRMARY, APSLEY 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:
- SX 48026 55606
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4855 APSLEY ROAD, Plymouth 740-1/43/350 (North West side) Royal Eye Infirmary
II
Eye infirmary. 1897 by Charles King and EW Lister. Red brick with limestone dressings including string courses; tiled hipped roofs with crested ridges and bracketed eaves, the 2 roofs over the taller towers flanking the entrance bay with half-conical fronts. brick axial stacks with engaged shafts becoming oversailing courses as cornices; wide roof dormers at front and rear. Wide double-depth plan plus central and end cross wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic over basement; nearly symmetrical articulated unaltered entrance front with projecting 2-window-range cross wings at far left and right flanking similar cross wings broken forward from the main range with 3-window range on either side of 3-bay entrance with half-round towers. Central round-arched entrance doorway of 3 orders as porch to tripartite doorway with pair of glazed doors set back inside; 4-light moulded corbelled oriel over doorway. Towers each with 4 windows per floor including 2nd floor above bracketed string as continuation of eaves cornice. Remainder of front has round-arched openings to ground floor with tripartite or paired windows and 1st-floor windows with pediments on consoles and moulded sills on brackets except for canted 3-light oriels to centre of each 3-window range. Ground and 1st-floor front windows are sashes with glazing bars with the meeting rails behind transoms. 2nd-floor windows of towers are sashes with glazing bars within moulded architraves. Rear is 1:4:1:3-window range with round-arched openings to ground and 1st floors and tripartite windows to the 3 cross wings, the centre one bowed, the end windows canted. All the windows are original sashes with glazing bars except for 1st floor of central bay which has a C20 window. INTERIOR: not inspected but may be of interest. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 660).
Listing NGR: SX4802655606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473176
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 660
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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