NUMBERS 15 TO 19 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS TO NUMBER 19

15-19, ATHENAEUM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129990
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 15 TO 19 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS TO NUMBER 19
Statutory Address:: 15-19, ATHENAEUM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129990
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 15 TO 19 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS TO NUMBER 19
Statutory Address 1:: 15-19, ATHENAEUM 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:: 15-19, ATHENAEUM 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 47512 54202

Details

SX4754 740-1/57/257

PLYMOUTH ATHENAEUM STREET (East side), Hoe Nos.15-19 (Consecutive) and attached forecourt walls and railings to No.19

(Formerly Listed as: ATHENAEUM STREET, Plymouth Nos.15-19, 22-30 AND 31)

25/01/54

GV II

Terrace of two and a half (No. 15) pairs of houses. c1829, attributed to John Foulston. Stucco, with stucco detail, on probable rubble; dry slate roof to No.18, otherwise asbestos slate, stepped roofs behind parapets with entablature with moulded cornice except for No.16 with plain cornice; segmental-roofed dormers except for No.16 and brick end stacks. PLAN: double-depth plan plus rear service wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic and basement to No.19; overall 10-window range: 2-window range of half pair on the left and 2 pairs, each pair with a symmetrical 4-window front with centre broken forward. Surviving stucco detail includes: channelled rustication to ground floor of No.15, recessed segmental-arched panels to ground floor and sill strings to all. Original 16-pane hornless sashes to basement of No.19, otherwise C20 horned sashes and C20 doors. Original pilastered porch with segmental-arched pediment and moulded entablature with Greek key pattern to Nos 18 and 19, pediment and return mouldings to an otherwise C20 porch to Nos 16 and 17. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain original features of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: in front of No.19 are forecourt walls and wrought-iron railings with arrow-head finials and stanchions with flaming-urn finials. Although damaged during the Blitz, this street is still a good example of early C19 terraced house design and part of an important planned group on the Hoe. (Cox J and Thorp J (Keystone, Historic Buildings Consultants): Atheneum Street, Plymouth, Devon: K426 2; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 664).

Listing NGR: SX4752054191

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Legacy System number:: 473182
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 664

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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.