Mount Lipson Cottage
MOUNT LIPSON COTTAGE, LIPSON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322017
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Lipson Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT LIPSON COTTAGE, LIPSON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322017
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Lipson Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT LIPSON COTTAGE, LIPSON ROAD
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:
- MOUNT LIPSON COTTAGE, LIPSON 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 49194 55623
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4955 LIPSON ROAD, Lipson Vale 740-1/44/324 (North East side) 28/06/89 Mount Lipson Cottage
II
Detached house. 1834-35. Incised stucco on probable rubble; dry slate roofs with projecting eaves and verges and with later C19 red clay crested ridge tiles and shaped finials; roof hipped to central cross wing and polygonal at the front; 2 stuccoed stacks with yellow clay louvred pots over cross walls. PLAN: Italianate villa with cruciform plan, the stair hall to the rear of the cross wing and there is an outshut to rear left, probably there was originally an outshut to rear of the right-hand side as shown on 1853 OS map. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 1:3:1-window N front, the projecting centre canted and taller with round-arched 1st-floor windows; wings at left and right with ground-floor windows only; mid C19 tall hornless sashes with glazing bars, the round-arched windows with spoked fanlight heads. Right-hand return has central 1st-floor sash rising into gable and doorway on the right with moulded hood on consoles and panelled door. Guardian fire insurance plaque above doorway. Rear has old sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes survival of most of the original features including moulded plaster ceiling cornices, panelled doors and old staircase, possibly original. HISTORY: Mount Lipson Cottage was built as a dower house to the now demolished Mount Lipson, the seat of the Govett family (Pevsner). An 1847 drawing of the house shows it as it is today but the centre windows of the canted bay are blind and the 1st-floor windows appear to have Gothic tracery. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 671).
Listing NGR: SX4919455623
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 671
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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