2 and 4, Ford Park

2 and 4, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244522
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 2 and 4, Ford Park
Statutory Address:: 2 and 4, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244522
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 2 and 4, Ford Park
Statutory Address 1:: 2 and 4, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RP

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 2 and 4, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RP

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 48287 55855

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/02/2018

SX4855 740-1/43/244

PLYMOUTH FORD PARK Nos. 2 and 4

(Formerly listed as Colson House Nos.1 and 2)

GV II Pair of villas in planned group, now part of Plymouth College. c1850s-60s, probably by George Wightwick. Stucco; dry slate roof behind balustraded parapet projecting over modillion cornice; stuccoed end and axial stacks with moulded cornices. Italianate style. Articulated double-depth plan. Two storeys over basement; pair of symmetrical three-bay fronts with projecting central entrance bays. Late C19 horned sashes, most in openings with moulded architraves. Moulded mid-floor string breaks forward to become a heavier moulded cornice of porch entablature over pilasters with alternate vermiculated and plain rustication; overlights and panelled doors. Ground-floor windows are tripartite and have moulded hoods.

INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. Part of a "well-preserved L-shaped layout of particularly lavish mid C19 villas with very busy Italianate stucco detail" (Pevsner).

Listing NGR: SX4828755855

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Legacy System number:: 473383
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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 669

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