Lima and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
LIMA AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 268 AND 272, CITADEL ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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
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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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473268
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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