NUMBERS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS

NUMBERS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 30 AND 31, ATHENAEUM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129992
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 30 AND 31, ATHENAEUM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129992
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 30 AND 31, 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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 30 AND 31 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 30 AND 31, 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 47511 54103

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 ATHENEUM STREET, Hoe 740-1/57/259 (East side) 25/01/54 Nos.30 AND 31 and attached forecourt walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: ATHENAEUM STREET, Plymouth Nos.15-19, 22-30 AND 31)

GV II

Includes: No.83 CITADEL ROAD Hoe. Pair of houses in planned street. 1829, attributed to John Foulston, remodelled late C19. Stucco, with stucco detail, on probable rubble; dry slate mansard roof behind parapet with entablature with moulded cornice and panelled centre break; 4 mansard dormers with sashes; brick end stacks, the right-hand stack truncated. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic over basement; 4-bay front with canted bays at left and right and entrance bay of No.30 left of centre, No.31 (right) with entrance to Citadel Road. Late C19 horned sashes, most with vertical glazing bars to No.30. Stucco detail includes: original recessed panel to ground-floor centre, channelled rustication to ground floor of bay windows, sill string and moulded architraves to 1st floor. Good entrance porch to No.30, with eared architrave, moulded entablature and balustraded parapet; 6-panel door within porch. INTERIOR: not inspected but may be of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls and entrance bridge with wrought-iron railings with arrow-head finials and stanchions with flaming-urn finials; original iron gate with anthemion decoration to No.30. Part of an important planned group on the Hoe. No.31 was listed on 01/05/75. (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: SX4751554217

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Legacy System number:: 473184
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.