Devonport Guildhall and Attached Walls
DEVONPORT GUILDHALL AND ATTACHED WALLS, KER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1322009
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Devonport Guildhall and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- DEVONPORT GUILDHALL AND ATTACHED WALLS, KER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1322009
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Devonport Guildhall and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEVONPORT GUILDHALL AND ATTACHED WALLS, KER 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:
- DEVONPORT GUILDHALL AND ATTACHED WALLS, KER 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:
- SX4533254378
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4554 KER STREET, Devonport
740-1/54/151 Devonport Guildhall and attached
25/01/54 walls
(Formerly Listed as:
KER STREET, Devonport
Guildhall)
GV I
Guildhall. 1821-22 by John Foulston. Stucco. Rectangular plan
plus transepts towards rear; designed to resemble an ancient
Greek temple.
Single storey; tetrastyle Greek Doric portico with fluted
columns on stylobate; entablature with dentils and a stepped
parapet surmounted by Britannia. Within the portico are more
steps up to a central tapered doorway with eared architrave
and a moulded entablature; pair of 5-panel doors. Side walls
each with 5 windows and a pedimented transept. Windows nearest
front are blind, the others have late C19 paired round-arched
traceried lights.
INTERIOR: of main hall has plaster cornice decoration.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stuccoed and coped courtyard walls at
either side are ramped up towards the front and with doorways
with pairs of panelled doors at the front end.
Part of an important group of civic structures by Foulston,
some of the most remarkable of their date in the country.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
675).
Listing NGR: SX4533254378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473550
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 675
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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