MOUNT WISE HOUSE

MOUNT WISE HOUSE, MOUNT WISE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386259
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: MOUNT WISE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MOUNT WISE HOUSE, MOUNT WISE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386259
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: MOUNT WISE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MOUNT WISE HOUSE, 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:: MOUNT WISE HOUSE, 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 45665 54227

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4554 MOUNT WISE, Devonport 740-1/54/161 Mount Wise House 01/05/75

GV II

House. 1808-10. Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate hipped roof behind stucco parapet with moulded cornice. Large square plan with 2 rooms at the front flanking a central entrance hall. 3 storeys; nearly symmetrical 6-window front with doorway to 3rd from left bay. Original or copy hornless sashes with glazing bars. Stucco detail includes: channelled rustication to ground floor with impost string to wide segmental arches with recessed windows; sill bands and moulded hoods on consoles to 1st floor. Later open cast-iron and glazed port-cochere with ornate spandrels. Similar general detail to 5-window left-hand return which is possibly the original front (facing George Street). INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. Built as officers' accommodation for the naval base. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 676 & 677; PSA Historic Buildings Register: DOE: Southern England (Devon South West): 89).

Listing NGR: SX4566554227

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 473644
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 676-677

Legal

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