WENTWORTH HOUSE AND WENTWORTH COTTAGE

WENTWORTH HOUSE AND WENTWORTH COTTAGE, DORMY AVENUE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245077
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: WENTWORTH HOUSE AND WENTWORTH COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: WENTWORTH HOUSE AND WENTWORTH COTTAGE, DORMY AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245077
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: WENTWORTH HOUSE AND WENTWORTH COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: WENTWORTH HOUSE AND WENTWORTH COTTAGE, DORMY AVENUE

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:: WENTWORTH HOUSE AND WENTWORTH COTTAGE, DORMY AVENUE

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:: SX4871656304

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4856SE DORMY AVENUE, Mannamead 740-1/38/326 (South East side) Wentworth House and Wentworth Cottage

GV II

Villa. Mid C19. Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate hipped roofs over modillion eaves cornices; cast-iron ogee gutters; stuccoed stacks with moulded cornices; double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 2;3 window range road frontage. Original sashes: hornless sashes with glazing bars to 1st floor of house, otherwise horned sashes; most windows with moulded hoods on carved consoles and sills on brackets, the bay windows (also to right-hand return) with moulded entablature. Cottage, on the left, has doorway at far right of regular fenestration. House has central pilastered round-arched doorway, bay window on the left and blind window over blind pilastered window on the right; plinth rusticated quoins and mid-floor string. Right-hand return has similar detail to that of the front. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to reflect the high quality of the exterior. On of the best examples of an 1850-1870s group of villas.

Listing NGR: SX4871656304

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Legacy System number:: 472657
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.