37 AND 38, NEW STREET
37 AND 38, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386284
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 38, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37 AND 38, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386284
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 38, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37 AND 38, 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:
- 37 AND 38, 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:
- SX4821254073
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW NEW STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/42 (South side)
25/01/54 Nos.37 AND 38
(Formerly Listed as:
NEW STREET, Plymouth
Nos.37 AND 38)
GV II
2 merchant's houses. C17, front remodelled later.
Stuccoed front with moulded cornices to slight jetties; steep
dry slate roof behind parapet; 2 dormer windows; rendered end
stack on left; 2 large rubble lateral stacks over original
rear wall and large rubble end stack off-centre to rear
right-hand wing.
PLAN: single-depth plan plus 2 rear gabled stair towers and 2
narrow wings.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic; 2:1-window range with C20
horned sashes with glazing bars. No.37 (left) has original
3-light ovolo-moulded window with 2 surviving mullions and a
partly-glazed door to either side.
INTERIOR: contains 2 original pole staircases. No.37 has C17
moulded beam to cellar, an ovolo-moulded doorframe to front
1st-floor room, a corner cupboard with doors missing, an old
planked door and 2 x C19 iron grates. No.38 has a C17
ovolo-moulded doorframe, some C18 ceiling joists, rough-hewn
beam in cobbled basement, a good C18 glazed corner cupboard
with elliptical arch and a C19 chimneypiece with consoles.
Roof structure not inspected but likely to be of interest.
New Street contains a high proportion of fine C17 and C18
houses.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
662).
Listing NGR: SX4821254073
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473669
- 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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