12 and 14, Ford Park

12 and 14, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244524
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 12 and 14, Ford Park
Statutory Address:: 12 and 14, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244524
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 12 and 14, Ford Park
Statutory Address 1:: 12 and 14, 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:: 12 and 14, 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 48278 55925

Details

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

SX4855 740-1/43/247

PLYMOUTH FORD PARK Nos. 12 and 14

(Formerly listed as Mannamead House, Nos.3 and 4)

GV II Pair of villas in planned group, now part of Plymouth College. c1850s-60s, probably by George Wightwick. Stucco with channelled rustication to basement plinth; dry slate roofs: central roof behind balustraded parapet on modillion cornice, cross wing roofs with pedimented front gables with central acroteria; stuccoed panelled end and axial stacks with moulded cornices. Italianate style. Articulated double-depth plan.

EXTERIOR: two-storeys over basement and with flanking three-storey wings and porches set back at left and right; symmetrical 1:2:3:2:1-bay front. Cross wing pediments with round central and triangular flanking panels over giant panelled pilasters and rusticated and vermiculated pilasters with moulded cornices to ground floor. Late C19 horned sashes in openings with moulded architraves: round arches to second floor, eared to first floor and with moulded hoods on consoles to ground floor. Central bays have tripartite windows to ground floor and central mid-floor round-arched niche with moulded hood and sill with brackets. 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: SX4827855925

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Legacy System number:: 473385
Legacy System:: LBS

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.