5, 6 and 7, Russell Place
5, 6 AND 7, RUSSELL PLACE, CENTRAL PARK AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130017
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 5, 6 and 7, Russell Place
- Statutory Address:
- 5, 6 AND 7, RUSSELL PLACE, CENTRAL PARK AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130017
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 5, 6 and 7, Russell Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, 6 AND 7, RUSSELL PLACE, CENTRAL PARK AVENUE
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:
- 5, 6 AND 7, RUSSELL PLACE, CENTRAL PARK AVENUE
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:
- SX4746855362
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4755 CENTRAL PARK AVENUE, Pennycomequick
740-1/42/342 (North West side)
01/05/75 Russell Place Nos.5, 6 and 7
(Formerly Listed as:
CENTRAL PARK AVENUE, Plymouth
Russell Place Nos 5-7 (consec))
II
Former gatehouse of Devonport Prison. 1849 (Pevsner). Plymouth
limestone rubble with limestone dressings of a lighter colour;
steep dry slate roofs plus embattled tower with machicolations
and octagonal corner turret; stone axial and lateral stacks
with tall brick shafts with oversailing courses.
PLAN: long irregular overall E-shaped plan with cross wings to
front. Domestic Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with 1st floor partly in roof space;
irregular gabled front. Stone mullioned windows: the principal
windows with trefoil-headed lights, other windows with
round-arched lights. Principal features of front include from
left: 3-light window to ground floor; 2-storey porch; attached
wider wing; then a symmetrical 3-bay arrangement with a
central 3-storey tower; then another cross wing; then an
irregular grouping of openings including a doorway on the
right and at far right an unequal pair of linked cross wings.
The 3 principal cross wings each have 3 or 4 lights over a
ground-floor canted window with a hipped roof; the next to far
right cross wing has 2 lights over 3 lights; the bays flanking
the tower have 2 lights over 4 lights. Tower has pair of
paired lights to upper stage with string and pair of lights
below and a hipped canted ground-floor projection. Otherwise
paired or single lights and squat 2-centred arched doorways.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A fine building in a restrained Gothic style.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
670).
Listing NGR: SX4746855362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473231
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 670
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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