Plymouth High School For Girls (Part) South Devon and Cornwall Institute For Blind
PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART) SOUTH DEVON AND CORNWALL INSTITUTE FOR BLIND, NORTH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386294
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Plymouth High School For Girls (Part) South Devon and Cornwall Institute For Blind
- Statutory Address:
- PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART) SOUTH DEVON AND CORNWALL INSTITUTE FOR BLIND, NORTH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386294
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Plymouth High School For Girls (Part) South Devon and Cornwall Institute For Blind
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART) SOUTH DEVON AND CORNWALL INSTITUTE FOR BLIND, NORTH HILL
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:
- PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART) SOUTH DEVON AND CORNWALL INSTITUTE FOR BLIND, NORTH HILL
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 48298 55411
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4855 NORTH HILL, Plymouth 740-1/43/386 (West side) 01/05/75 Plymouth High School for Girls (part) (S Devon & Cornwall Institute for Blind) (Formerly Listed as: TAVISTOCK ROAD, Plymouth Plymouth High School for Girls)
GV II
Institute for the blind, later school. 1876. By HG Snell, former tower demolished after damage in the Blitz. Plymouth limestone rubble with sandstone dressings; dry slate hipped roofs with modillioned eaves; stone and brick stack to left of taller central roof. Long rectangular plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 4:5:4-bay front with central block broken forward. Plinth, mid-floor string, round-arched windows to 1st floor, segmental-arched windows to ground floor of central block and shouldered arches to ground floor of flanking wings. The piers between the windows are as a giant order of pilasters and the window openings have aprons and contain original horned sashes. The central block has hoodmoulds over the 1st-floor windows and the aprons have cusped-panelled friezes and central shields. Central round-arched doorway under a corbelled gabled hood with central trefoil-headed niche. The doorway is now fitted with a window. INTERIOR: not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 658).
Listing NGR: SX4829855411
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 658
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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