St Dunstans Abbey and Attached Road Frontage Walls
ST DUNSTANS ABBEY AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS, NORTH ROAD WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386299
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- St Dunstans Abbey and Attached Road Frontage Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ST DUNSTANS ABBEY AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS, NORTH ROAD WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386299
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- St Dunstans Abbey and Attached Road Frontage Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST DUNSTANS ABBEY AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS, NORTH ROAD WEST
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:
- ST DUNSTANS ABBEY AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS, NORTH ROAD WEST
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 46939 54980
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654NE NORTH ROAD WEST, Stonehouse 740-1/56/825 (North side) 01/05/75 St Dunstan's Abbey and attached road-frontage walls (Formerly Listed as: NORTH ROAD, Plymouth St Dunstan's Abbey)
GV II*
Abbey complex. Begun 1850, by William Butterfield. Plymouth limestone rubble with yellow stone dressings; weatherboarding to covered walk; steep dry slate roofs on several levels; crested clay ridge tiles; large stone lateral stacks. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: large irregular plan partly enclosing 2 courtyards with chapel to north; house north-east of chapel linked by a cloister to an L-shaped block to the south-east and there is another block to south-west of chapel plus a long single-storey covered walk beyond. There is a porter's lodge left of entrance and a further block east of chapel. EXTERIOR: single-storey chapel and covered walk, otherwise 2 storeys except for house which is 3 storeys; elevations mostly with irregularly disposed openings. Entrance to abbey has stone cross set in gable above. Porter's lodge has transomed gabled 2-light window with quatrefoil tracery. Chapel has 5-light window with geometric tracery to W end. 5-bay cloister in front of courtyard elevation of chapel; 2-light windows with hoodmoulds and large lateral stack on the left. Lower range returned in front to left of cloister with single and paired lights. The opposite elevation of this range has large central outbuilt gabled stack with 4 small windows; 2-light windows stepping up to left of this with central taller stair window. Wing south-west of chapel has coped gable end with 5-light window under a segmental arch; NW elevation has paired windows. House has single and paired lancets plus an oriel window breaking eaves to SE end; semicircular stair turret to left of NW elevation and canted end to NW elevation. The covered walk has a rubble plinth and weather- boarding above; there are 3-light wooden windows with trefoil-headed lights. INTERIOR: has many original features of interest. Chapel has doorways with 2 orders of pointed arches. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high rubble walls. An outstanding example of Butterfield's work. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 659).
Listing NGR: SX4693954980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473684
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 659
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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