8-14 Cumberland Street including Beresford Arms Public House (No 9)

10-14, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1130054
Date first listed:
01-May-1975
List Entry Name:
8-14 Cumberland Street including Beresford Arms Public House (No 9)
Statutory Address:
10-14, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1130054
Date first listed:
01-May-1975
List Entry Name:
8-14 Cumberland Street including Beresford Arms Public House (No 9)
Statutory Address 1:
10-14, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX
Statutory Address 2:
8, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX
Statutory Address 3:
Beresford Arms Public House, 9, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
10-14, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX
Statutory Address:
8, Cumberland Street, Plymouth, PL1 4DX
Statutory Address:
Beresford Arms Public House, 9, 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:
SX4546954507

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/02/3018

SX4554
740-1/54/135

PLYMOUTH
Devonport
CUMBERLAND STREET (South side)
Nos.8-14 (consecutive) including Beresford Arms Public House (No.9)

(Formerly listed as Nos.8-14 (Consecutive) The Lord Beresford Public House (No.9))


01/05/75

GV
II
Planned terrace of seven houses with later shops and a public house. c1830. Stucco with probable slate or asbestos slate roofs mostly hidden behind stuccoed parapets with moulded entablature; old attic dormers except for large C20 loft window to No.13 (sixth from left) rendered brick end stacks. Double-depth plan.

EXTERIOR: three storeys plus attics; overall regular fourteen-window range. Original hornless sashes with glazing bars except to Nos.11 and 13 and to second floor of No.10. Nos.8-10 have their original rusticated end pilasters and these survive to ground floor between the shops. Nos. 9-14 have their original panelled window pilasters, some of these to first floor rise through the moulded hoods, and sill brackets. Except for Nos. 9 and 10 there is a possibly original moulded cornice above the fascia of the shops. No.9 has good late C19 double shopfront with round-arched lights. The others with old shopfronts have had varying degrees of alteration. No.12 has had a late C19 shopfront removed and a smaller window opening inserted. No.11 has a crude C20 shopfront; those of Nos.10 and 14 are also C20.

INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX4546954507

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
473308
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 8-14 Cumberland Street including Beresford Arms Public House (No 9)

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