Corporation Buildings
CORPORATION BUILDINGS, 16-21, HOW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322002
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Corporation Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- CORPORATION BUILDINGS, 16-21, HOW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322002
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Corporation Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORPORATION BUILDINGS, 16-21, HOW STREET
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:
- CORPORATION BUILDINGS, 16-21, HOW STREET
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 48136 54413
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW HOW STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/10 (South side) 19/12/88 Nos.16-21 (Consecutive) Corporation Buildings
GV II
Marked Nos 10-15 on OS map. Terrace of local authority housing with corner shop. c1900. Painted brick walls, concrete floors and staircases; dry slate stepped roofs with slightly projecting eaves, hipped at the ends; deep brick end stacks with stepped cornices. Double-depth plan with mews street at rear; each house has central ground-floor through passage and is divided into 1-bedroom tenements. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; each house has symmetrical 3-window front except house with corner shop on its right. Original 12-pane horned sashes with segmental heads; similar heads to central doorways with overlights and panelled doors. Moulded entablature with consoles clasping corner over original pilastered double shopfront with transoms to the front windows and plate glass to the 2 large windows to right-hand return. At rear each house is a 4-window range with original windows: 12-pane sashes flanking single lights. Flat-roofed stores with planked doors linked to dwarf walls surmounted by steel balustrades. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of a complete block of practically unaltered early local authority housing. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663 & 664).
Listing NGR: SX4811054412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473543
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 663-664
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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