34, NEW STREET
34, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386281
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 34, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 34, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386281
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 34, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34, NEW STREET
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:
- 34, NEW STREET
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 48235 54063
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW NEW STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/39 (South side)
25/01/54 No.34
(Formerly Listed as:
NEW STREET, Plymouth
Nos.34 AND 35)
GV II*
Merchant's house, one of an original pair. C17, remodelled to
front probably mid C19.
MATERIALS: stuccoed front, timber frame with close-set studs
at rear and to right-hand side of wing (the 2nd floor
originally slate-hung); rendered brick to rear wall of wing;
steep dry slate roofs, rear gable of front range shared with
No.35 (qv); 1 hipped roof dormer to wing; large stone lateral
stacks: one to rear left and another to left-hand side of
wing.
PLAN: overall L-shaped with 1 room at the front incorporating
a newel stair plus fairly deep rear wing at some time
truncated.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement; 2-window 1st-floor range;
central window above; mid C19 12-pane hornless sashes. Ground
floor has exceptionally fine original ovolo and ogee moulded
oak doorway with stops incorporating strapwork over bulbous
bases and with an ogee-arched head on the right and headrail
of former mullioned window over C20 horned triple sash on the
left (more original timber frame structure including a turned
post, 2 small windows and evidence for oriel window hidden
under plaster above). 2 squat basement windows, the one on the
left originally a loading hatch. Rear has C20 2-light casement
under gable, C20 replica 3-light mullioned window to 1st floor
and 4-panel door in original moulded oak frame to ground
floor. Front of rear wing has original 8-light mullioned
window to 1st-floor left and 4 surviving lights of a similar
window on the right. Ground floor has a central 8-light
mullioned window, which, except for the head beam, is a C20
replica of the original; all the mullioned windows have ovolo
mouldings. There is an original moulded doorway to
ground-floor left of the wing and evidence for another at far
right. Rear gable end of the wing has a C19 hornless sash to
each floor: a 16-pane sash to ground-floor left, a 12-pane
sash to 1st-floor centre and a 4-pane sash above.
INTERIOR: retains much of its original structure including
wooden newel stair and roof trusses with threaded purlins.
There is an early C18 eared chimeypiece with moulded and
pulvinated frieze and dentils to 2nd-floor front room and
there are 2 simple wooden chimneypieces, one with a c1900 iron
grate; narrow C18 cupboard with H hinges to rear wing;
original joists to basement and stone staircase.
New Street contains a high proportion of fine C17 and C18
houses.
(Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants: 34 New Street,
Plymouth; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London:
1989-: 662).
Listing NGR: SX4823554063
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 662
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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