8, George Street
8, George Street, Plymouth, PL1 4HN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319612
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 8, George Street
- Statutory Address:
- 8, George Street, Plymouth, PL1 4HN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319612
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 8, George Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, George Street, Plymouth, PL1 4HN
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:
- 8, George Street, Plymouth, PL1 4HN
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 45510 54466
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/02/2018
SX4554
740-1/54/145
PLYMOUTH
Devonport
GEORGE STREET (North side)
No.8
(formerly listed as No.2 Old Chapel Public House, DUKE STREET, previously listed as: GEORGE STREET, Devonport No.8 The Old Chapel Public House)
25/01/54
GV
II
Former nonconformist (Unitarian chapel). 1790; converted to public house in 1801. Stone rubble with brick dressings but probably originally stuccoed; bitumen-grouted slate roofs with slightly-projecting eaves and moulded wooden pediment to front end of main roof and to porch roof. Rectangular aisle-less plan, presumably originally with galleries; small C20 flat-roofed single-storey extension to part of left-hand return.
Two-storey elevations: three windows to left-hand side and two windows to entrance front. Round first-floor windows with glazing bars and pivot-opening centres. There is a blind oval formerly dated 1801 to the main pediment and a spoked glazed lunette to the porch pediment with a 1790 date plaque under; blocked ground-floor windows: two flanking wide central doorway of porch and one visible to left-hand return; C20 panelled doors.
INTERIOR: remodelled C20.
Listing NGR: SX4551054466
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 676
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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