The Retreat
THE RETREAT, BELLE VUE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330566
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address:
- THE RETREAT, BELLE VUE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330566
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RETREAT, BELLE VUE 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:
- THE RETREAT, BELLE VUE 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:
- SX5023452233
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX5052SW BELLE VUE ROAD
740-1/85/595 (North West side)
29/03/60 Plymstock, Hooe (Higher)
The Retreat
GV II*
Detached house. Late C18. Render or stucco on probable rubble;
dry slate hipped roof with modillion cornice at the front,
returned slightly at either end; large brick axial stacks.
Square double-depth plan plus single-storey wing on the left.
3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Plinth, mid-floor
strings, rusticated quoins and hoodmoulds with central shell
motifs over the ground and 1st-floor windows. Original paired
hornless sashes with glazing bars. Central doorway with fluted
Ionic columns and dentilled pediment; original panelled door.
INTERIOR: good original internal features include: staircase
with turned balusters and column newels; round-arched doorways
with panelled doors; panelled window shutters; moulded ceiling
cornices; chimneypieces, one with original grate; segmental
arch to end of 1 front room and rear room with entablature
carried on paired Tuscan columns (information from former list
description).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
682).
Listing NGR: SX5023452233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473195
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 682
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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