6, 8 (College House) and 10, Ford Park

10, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL8 6RP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244523
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 6, 8 (College House) and 10, Ford Park
Statutory Address:: 10, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL8 6RP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244523
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 6, 8 (College House) and 10, Ford Park
Statutory Address 1:: 10, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL8 6RP
Statutory Address 2:: 6, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RP
Statutory Address 3:: College House, 8, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL8 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 10, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL8 6RP
Statutory Address:: 6, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RP
Statutory Address:: College House, 8, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL8 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 48282 55885

Details

SX4855 740-1/43/243

PLYMOUTH FORD PARK Nos. 6, 8 (College House) and 10

(Formerly listed as Mannamead House, Nos.1 and 2, Includes: Colson House No.3 FORD PARK) GV II Formerly known as: Anglesey Villas FORD PARK. Pair of villas in planned group, now part of Plymouth College. c1850s-60s, probably by George Wightwick. Stucco; dry Delabole slate roofs behind stuccoed balustraded parapet projecting over modillion cornice; two stuccoed partly external stacks at each end, each with triple square shafts and moulded cornices. Italianate style. Articulated double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: two storeys over basement plus attic; three-bay front plus single-storey porches set back at left and right. Central bay is three storeys and surmounted by open pediment with central acroterion and at either side segmental mini pediments over panelled pilasters; recessed architraves to round-arched window second-floor above square-headed window with moulded hood on brackets with balustraded balcony over cornice to canted bay window with pilasters. Flanking bays with recessed architraves and panelled end pilasters; all windows are late C19 horned sashes. Porches have moulded entablature to flat roofs and round-arched doorways with recessed architraves and moulded impost strings. Panelled doors. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. Part of a "well -preserved L-shaped layout of particularly lavish mid C19 villas with busy Italianate stucco detail" (Pevsner).

Listing NGR: SX4828255885

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 473384
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

Legal

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