The Guildhall
THE GUILDHALL, 42, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1244435
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, 42, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1244435
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILDHALL, 42, 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 GUILDHALL, 42, 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 54395 55697
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX5455NW FORE STREET, Plympton St Maurice 740-1/49/486 (North side) 23/04/52 No.42 The Guildhall
GV II*
Guildhall. 1696 datestone, for George Treby (and the Strode family). MATERIALS: roughly coursed rubble with dressed granite rusticated quoins, dressed granite arcade and granite ashlar arcade abutments and 1st-floor sill course and string; steep dry slate roof with sprocketed eaves over moulded and modillion cornice; steep asbestos slate roof to rear wing; brick stack over rear wall of front range. PLAN: shallow-depth front range with 2 shallow ground floor rooms flanking a central passage and the 1st-floor rooms deeper by projecting forward over a 3-bay arcade, plus deep rear wing at right angles and there is a single-storey extension on the right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay front. C20 16-pane horned sashes to 1st floor with carved heraldic panels between; round-arched mid-late C19 horned sashes and central round-arched doorway with fanlight and 9-panel door set back within arcade. Moulded round-arched arcade on Tuscan columns; carved 2-tier keystone to central arch; rubble relieving arches, those to left and right with plain keystones. Round rubble arches to returns allowing pavement access, the pavement with slate flags; sashes like the other 1st-floor sashes to 1st-floor returns; stair outshut to right-hand return of wing with early C19 12-pane hornless sash. Right-hand return has late C19 2-light round-arched windows with traceried heads. Rear has pointed-arched window with fanlight head. INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes: good C18 fireplace. The mayoral insignia are preserved and include 2 silver gilt maces. HISTORY: the Guildhall was given by the Trubys and the Strodes, 2 important families of the neighbourhood. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 684).
Listing NGR: SX5439255705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473406
- 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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