Numbers 7 and 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Iron Railings
NUMBERS 7 AND 8 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND IRON RAILINGS, 7 AND 8, NELSON GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386265
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 7 and 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Iron Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 7 AND 8 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND IRON RAILINGS, 7 AND 8, NELSON GARDENS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386265
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 7 and 8 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Iron Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 7 AND 8 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND IRON RAILINGS, 7 AND 8, NELSON GARDENS
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:
- NUMBERS 7 AND 8 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND IRON RAILINGS, 7 AND 8, NELSON GARDENS
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:
- SX4604855336
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4655 NELSON GARDENS, Stoke
740-1/42/904 (South side)
Nos.7 AND 8
and attached forecourt walls and
iron railings
GV II
Pair of large villas in planned group. Mid C19 (shown on 1860
map). Incised stucco with stucco detail; dry slate mansard
roof over front and rear eaves entablature of fairly
widely-spaced brackets; each house with 4 mansard windows with
pediments (similar windows at rear) another smaller window off
centre, all 4-pane horned sashes; 2-stage stuccoed axial and
end stacks with stepped cornices. Double-depth plan, near
mirror-image pair.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic over basement; each house has a
4-window-range unaltered front including a tripartite stair
window (2nd from end window) with broken and open segmental
pediment on consoles to the central light. End windows are
over corners of porches, the other bays are regular with 2
windows to each floor; all horned sashes within moulded
architraves. Stucco detail includes: rusticated quoins,
moulded plinth and mid-floor strings; porch with channelled
rustication, moulded sill string and moulded parapet
entablature. The large flat-roofed porches are 3 bays with
sashes to inner bays and sash to each end return; Pedimented
doorways to outer bays with carved tympana and engaged Tuscan
columns on plinths; inner doorways with moulded and keyed
architraves; leaded glazed overlights and panelled doors with
fielded and bolection-moulded panels.
Rear has similar stucco detail and mostly horned sashes and
there is a wrought-iron iron eaves balustrade. Each house has
a full-height canted bay to its end bay surmounted by a
smaller-plan attic window with poygonal roof. No 8 has 3
regular inner bays; No 7 has 1 similar bay and a bowed
projection with tripartite windows, but with sash replaced
with plain glass to 1st-floor centre light over ground-floor
light altered to create doorway with overlight and pair of
glazed doors.
INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be as unaltered as the
exterior and to contain features which reflect its strong
external architectural detail.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls surmounted by
wrought-iron railings with arrow-head finials.
A virtually unaltered pair of villas in a good planned group.
Listing NGR: SX4604855336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473650
- 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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