Ford Park Lodge

Ford Park Lodge, Ford Park Road, Plymouth, PL4 6QY

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244529
Date first listed:
01-May-1975
List Entry Name:
Ford Park Lodge
Statutory Address:
Ford Park Lodge, Ford Park Road, Plymouth, PL4 6QY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244529
Date first listed:
01-May-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
Ford Park Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
Ford Park Lodge, Ford Park Road, Plymouth, PL4 6QY

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Ford Park Lodge, Ford Park Road, Plymouth, PL4 6QY

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 48298 55831

Details

SX4855
740-1/43/250

PLYMOUTH
Ford Park
FORD PARK ROAD (North side)
Ford Park Lodge

(Formerly Listed as: FORD PARK ROAD, Plymouth, Ford Park Lodge)

01/05/75

GV
II
Lodge at entrance to park and to planned group of villas. c1850s-60s by George Wightwick. Dressed Plymouth limestone with painted dressings; dry slate low-pitched roof with projecting eaves; central dressed limestone panelled stack with bracketed cornice. Italianate style.

Small T-shaped plan plus rear extension. Single storey; three-bay front with projecting central bay with open loggia with three horse-shoe arches on short columns with central doorway with similar arch within. Similar arches also to flanking bays each with one window; two-light casements with glazing bars.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Part of a fine planned group of villas. Illustrated in Wightwick's album, who may therefore have designed the villas in Ford Park (qqv).

Listing NGR: SX4829855831

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
473390
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.

Ordnance survey map of Ford Park Lodge

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