2 and 3, Wedgwood Villas
2 and 3, Wedgwood Villas, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244527
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 2 and 3, Wedgwood Villas
- Statutory Address:
- 2 and 3, Wedgwood Villas, Ford Park, Plymouth, PL4 6RN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244527
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 2 and 3, Wedgwood Villas
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 and 3, Wedgwood 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:
- 2 and 3, Wedgwood 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 48236 55950
Details
SX4855
740-1/43/248
PLYMOUTH
FORD PARK
Wedgwood Villas, Nos.2 and 3
GV
II
Unequal pair of villas in planned group, now part of Plymouth College. c1850s-60s, probably by George Wightwick. Stucco; bitumen-grouted slate and asbestos slate roofs with modillion eaves cornices and projecting verges; stuccoed end and axial stacks with moulded cornices. Italianate style. Articulated double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: two storeys plus attic over basement; symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front plus single-storey porch set back on right and leading to three-storey axial wing (porch with later lean-to built above). Central bays have segmental pediment over narrower central bay which is broken forward and has channelled rustication to ground floor porch with coved round-arched doorway with keyblock. Late C19 horned sashes in openings with moulded architraves: hoods on consoles to first floor plus pediments over tripartite windows of projecting cross wings; round-arched windows with keyblocks and pilasters to ground floor. Open porch has round arch with keyblock to the front and two round arches to right-hand return; mid-floor moulded string of main front becomes cornice to former balustrade above.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Included for group value as part of a "well preserved L-shaped layout of particularly lavish mid C19 villas with busy Italianate stucco detail" (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SX4823655950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473388
- 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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