The Pent House
THE PENT HOUSE, 20, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244427
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Pent House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PENT HOUSE, 20, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244427
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Pent House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PENT HOUSE, 20, FORE STREET
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:
- THE PENT HOUSE, 20, FORE 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 54474 55686
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX5455NW FORE STREET, Plympton St Maurice 740-1/49/476 (North side) 23/04/52 No.20 The Pent House
GV II
Pair of small merchants' houses or tenements of cottages, now 1 house. Probably C17. Rubble walls except for deep-projecting 1st floor which is render on probable timber frame; dry slate roof; brick end stacks. Originally a U-shaped plan with near central through passage giving access to narrow courtyard between deep rear wings. 2 storeys; 3-window range. C20 leaded casements to 1st floor which is carried on a timber bressumer over a colonnade of 5 unevenly spaced square rubble columns or piers. The ground-floor front set back to rear of pavement has 4 window openings of varied sizes with C20 windows and there is a doorway left of centre with a C20 door. INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes crude C17 1st-floor fireplace with chamfered jambs and corbels to a slate lintel. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 684).
Listing NGR: SX5430655799
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 684
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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