Penlee House and Netherton

PENLEE HOUSE AND NETHERTON, 89 AND 91, MOLESWORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386249
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
Penlee House and Netherton
Statutory Address:
PENLEE HOUSE AND NETHERTON, 89 AND 91, MOLESWORTH ROAD
Penlee House after simultaneous repaint of Netherton House  in dove grey in 2015
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Date:
2007-11-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386249
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
Penlee House and Netherton
Statutory Address 1:
PENLEE HOUSE AND NETHERTON, 89 AND 91, MOLESWORTH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PENLEE HOUSE AND NETHERTON, 89 AND 91, MOLESWORTH 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:
SX4632655480

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4655 MOLESWORTH ROAD, Stoke
740-1/42/658 (West side)
Nos.89 AND 91
Penlee House and Netherton

GV II

Unequal pair of villas. Mid C19. Stucco with stucco detail;
dry slate hipped roofs with modillion cornices; stuccoed
lateral stacks with moulded cornices, some of them as linked
pairs. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys; irregular articulated front. Mostly original
hornless or late C19 horned sashes; some windows with leaded
glazing. Stucco detail includes: some banded rustication to
ground floor and 1st-floor window of No.89 (left) with
pediment on consoles. Panelled doors to porches: the porch of
No.89 with moulded entablature and panelled pilasters, the
other porch with quoin rustication.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Relating to a fine group of villas.




Listing NGR: SX4632655480

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
473633
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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