PEARN CONVALESCENT HOME

PEARN CONVALESCENT HOME, EGG BUCKLAND ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244647
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: PEARN CONVALESCENT HOME
Statutory Address:: PEARN CONVALESCENT HOME, EGG BUCKLAND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244647
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: PEARN CONVALESCENT HOME
Statutory Address 1:: PEARN CONVALESCENT HOME, EGG BUCKLAND ROAD

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:: PEARN CONVALESCENT HOME, EGG BUCKLAND ROAD

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 48980 56780

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4956NW EGG BUCKLAND ROAD, Compton 740-1/33/107 (South side) Pearn Convalescent Home

II

Convalescent home. 1892 for Alonzo Pearn, opened 1895. MATERIALS: stucco with various stucco and ceramic details; asbestos slate hipped roofs with sprocketed eaves to wings and copper octagonal domes with finials over the cupolas of the 2 entrance towers, the left-hand cupola with blind openings the other with remains of its original ornate fenestration; deep stuccoed stacks over the cross walls; balustraded parapets over moulded cornices to central block and towers; projecting eaves to wings which have cast-iron verandahs to ground floor. Italianate style with some Free Style detail. PLAN: overall E-shaped plan with deeper central rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical overall 16-window articulated front plus canted ends to wings (4:1:2:2:2:1:4 bays). Original 2-pane mostly round-arched horned sashes. Overall the front has plinth, moulded impost strings; mid-floor and sill strings with brackets to central bays; moulded round arches, the flat bays with 1st-floor hoods with entablature on consoles. The 2 central bays are paired canted bays with linking segmental arch, rustication to ground floor, bowed balustraded balcony to blind window above plus segmental pediment surmounting the parapet balustrade. The entrance towers have rusticated quoin pilasters, there are stone steps up to wide round-arched doorways with pairs of panelled doors, sun-burst fanlights and pedimented 1st-floor windows with balustraded balconies on corbels. The glazed-roofed verandahs have elaborate ironwork with flat elliptical arches carried on slender turned columns with near Ionic capitals. INTERIOR: where inspected the original features survive including moulded plaster ceiling cornices, tall tiled dado panelling to entrance halls; open-well staircases with turned square balusters and chimneypieces at either end of large central room which was originally 2 rooms when the home was divided with males and females in separate halves. This is an unusual building type which is distinguished architecturally and survives virtually complete as built. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 660).

Listing NGR: SX4898056780

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Legacy System number:: 473373
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 660

Legal

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