7, Cumberland Street

7, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1130053
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
7, Cumberland Street
Statutory Address:
7, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1130053
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
7, Cumberland Street
Statutory Address 1:
7, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
7, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX

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:
SX4549654498

Details

SX4554
740-1/54/134

PLYMOUTH
Devonport
CUMBERLAND STREET (south side)
No.7

25/01/54

GV
II
House between two planned terraces. c1830. Stucco with much architectural detail; roof hidden behind parapet with squat triangular pediment; brick end stacks. Double-depth plan.

Three storeys; three-bay front with pediment over giant Corinthian pilasters. Wider central bay with segmental arches to slightly recessed tripartite windows boarded over; flanking bays with round-arched niches with large vases to first floor and boarded-up second-floor windows with panelled aprons under sills. Ground floor has channelled rustication flanking doorway on the left and shopfront boarded up on the right.

INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to retain features of interest.

A bold commercial design, part of a planned group in Cumberland Street and George Street (qqv).

Listing NGR: SX4549654498

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
473307
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 676

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 7, Cumberland Street

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