LIMA AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS

LIMA AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 268 AND 272, CITADEL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330547
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: LIMA AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: LIMA AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 268 AND 272, CITADEL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330547
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: LIMA AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: LIMA AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 268 AND 272, CITADEL ROAD

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:: LIMA AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 268 AND 272, CITADEL 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:: SX4755654062

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 CITADEL ROAD, Hoe 740-1/57/270 (South side) Nos.268 AND 272 Lima and attached forecourt walls and railings

GV II

2 houses at end of terrace and on street corner. Mid C19. Stucco; asbestos slate shallow mansard roof behind parapet with heavy moulded and modillioned cornice; 2 roof dormers and central stucco axial stack heightened with brick. Double-depth corner site plan, each house with entrance hall on its left, the left-hand house (No.272) with its entrance in Holyrood Place. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic over basement; slightly asymmetrical 4-window front to Citadel Road with doorway (No.268) slightly right of centre. Original 12-pane hornless sashes except for later 4-pane horned sash to ground floor of left-hand return. Stucco detail includes sill strings and moulded architraves, those to 1st floor with moulded cornice hoods; 2nd-floor windows shorter. Good quality panelled, pilastered and pedimented porches with modillion cornices. No.268 has pair of glazed doors with fielded bottom panels; No.272 has original 6-panel door, both have glazed overlights. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest and as unaltered as the exterior. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low freestone plinth to wrought-iron railings, some with spearhead finials, turned cast-iron stanchions with acorn finials and newels with anthemion heads. Included as part of a fine planned group of terraces and villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick on the Hoe, a scheme which placed Plymouth at the forefront of town planning in the early/mid C19.

Listing NGR: SX4755654062

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Legacy System number:: 473268
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.