1 and 2, Shaftesbury Villas
1 and 2, Shaftesbury Villas, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244525
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2, Shaftesbury Villas
- Statutory Address:
- 1 and 2, Shaftesbury Villas, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244525
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2, Shaftesbury Villas
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 and 2, Shaftesbury Villas, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RN
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:
- 1 and 2, Shaftesbury Villas, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RN
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 48201 55962
Details
SX4855
740-1/43/249
PLYMOUTH
FORD PARK
Shaftsbury Villas, Nos.1 and 2
GV
II
Pair of villas, now part of Plymouth College. c1850s-60s, probably by George Wightwick. Stucco; dry slate roofs with moulded eaves cornices and modillion cornices to most of the pedimented gables; many stuccoed axial, gable and slightly-projecting lateral stacks. Italianate style. Irregular plan with articulated elevations.
EXTERIOR: two storeys plus attics; east front with mid-floor string is 1:2:3 unequal bays with projecting three-storey two-bay pedimented cross wing on the left, recessed central bays with modillion cornice with narrower entrance bay to left with single-storey porch in the angle and lower projecting two-storey wing with coved eaves on the right. Paired sashes to upper floors of cross wing, round-arched sash over porch with moulded cornice and round-arched doorway with pair of panelled doors and plain glazed fanlight; tripartite windows to next bay and with string becoming moulded hood on consoles to ground floor; similar detail to three closely grouped sashes of wing on right. Right-hand return has two round-arched stair windows with original hornless sashes with glazing bars. Most of the other openings also have original sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of a "well preserved L-shaped layout of particularly lavish mid C19 villas with busy Italianate stucco detail" (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SX4820155962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473386
- 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.
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