Minerva Inn (Number 31)
MINERVA INN (NUMBER 31), 31 AND 32, LOOE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386206
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Minerva Inn (Number 31)
- Statutory Address:
- MINERVA INN (NUMBER 31), 31 AND 32, LOOE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386206
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Minerva Inn (Number 31)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINERVA INN (NUMBER 31), 31 AND 32, LOOE 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:
- MINERVA INN (NUMBER 31), 31 AND 32, LOOE 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:
- SX4815854369
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW LOOE STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/18 (South side)
25/01/54 Nos.31 AND 32
Minerva Inn (No.31)
(Formerly Listed as:
LOOE STREET, Plymouth
No.31 (Minerva Public House). No.32)
GV II
2 merchants' houses, now public house. Late C16 or early C17.
Stucco on timber-framed jettied front; steep dry slate roofs,
the left-hand roof half-hipped and the other roof (No.32) with
front gable projecting and carried on moulded brackets and
with central turned pendant; rendered stacks: one on the left
and lateral stack to rear right. Deep U-shaped plan including
rear wings with fronts end on to the street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with upper floor partly in roof space and
1st and 2nd floors jettied; each front a 1-window range: No.31
with C20 horned sashes, 1st and 3rd floor sashes with glazing
bars; No.32 with 2-light casements with glazing bars to 1st
and 2nd floors off-centre to right and 3-light casement to
centre of gable. Ground floor has early C19 shopfront with
fascia and narrow pilasters; No.32 has fascia over shop window
with group of 3 late C19 horned sashes.
INTERIOR: described in former list description as having pole
staircase in each; No.31 with small section of C16/C17
panelling on the stairs and said to contain part of a late C16
plaster ceiling.
Part of a significant group of C17 and C18 houses.
No.31 listed on 01/05/75.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
664).
Listing NGR: SX4815854369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 664
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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