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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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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Official list entry

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

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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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

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Legacy System:: LBS

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