80, COMPTON AVENUE
80, COMPTON AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130045
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 80, COMPTON AVENUE
- Statutory Address:
- 80, COMPTON AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130045
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 80, COMPTON AVENUE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 80, COMPTON 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:
- 80, COMPTON 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:
- SX 49262 56278
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4856SE COMPTON AVENUE, Mannamead 740-1/38/325 (South side) No.80
GV II
Former vicarage of Emmanuel Church, Mannamead Road (qv). 1906 (Pevsner). Roughcast render; steep red tile roofs with projecting eaves with exposed rafters and projecting verges with exposed purlins and jettied over canted oriels [front and rear]; mostly outbuilt end stacks with most of the original pots. L-shaped plan, the front with pair of cross wings plus lower service wing at right angles to rear left. Arts and Crafts design. 2 storeys plus attics; 3-window-range front. Wide wooden mullioned windows with leaded glass; central flat-roofed porch on scrolled brackets, buttressed doorway with planked door and small window right of door, and canted bay window right of porch. INTERIOR: has large entrance/stair hall with large open-well staircase with open string, panelled newels, moulded handrails and splat balustrades; newel posts continued up to support moulded beams of coffered and corbelled ceiling; eared chimneypiece to right-hand room, otherwise not inspected. A very good example of a restrained design after the style of architects such as Voysey and Parker. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 670).
Listing NGR: SX4926256278
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473282
- 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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