HAMOAZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS

HAMOAZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, MOUNT WISE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386257
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: HAMOAZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: HAMOAZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, MOUNT WISE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386257
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: HAMOAZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: HAMOAZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, MOUNT WISE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HAMOAZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, MOUNT WISE

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:: SX 45637 54194

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4554 MOUNT WISE, Devonport 740-1/54/158 Hamoaze House and attached forecourt 01/05/75 railings

GV II

Large house on naval base. 1795, built for the Duke of Richmond and later extended. Plymouth limestone ashlar with mid-floor and sill strings; dry slate hipped roofs behind moulded stone parapets; ashlar stacks to rear of front wings and rendered end stacks to centre block. Large double-depth plan with 3-storey-over-basement centre block and flanking 2-storey wings, plus various extensions at rear. EXTERIOR: symmetrical 3:5:3-window front with original and copy sashes with glazing bars under flat arches, shorter windows to upper floors. Central enclosed stone porch with moulded and dentilled entablature and fanlight to round-arched doorway with panelled doors; round-arched side windows. Added to the porch is an open cast-iron trellised verandah with 2 bays on either side of the porch and with a glazed balcony under a hipped roof to 1st floor above. Good side doorway to George Street. INTERIOR: has many original features of interest including open-well staircase with turned balusters to lower flights and stick balusters higher up. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: original wrought-iron forecourt railings. One of a fine group of buildings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 676 & 677; PSA Historic Buildings Register: DOE: Southern England (Devon South West): 88).

Listing NGR: SX4563754194

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 473642
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 676-677
'PSA Historic Building Register' in Southern England Devon South West, (), 88

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.