St Dunstans Abbey School and Attached Road Frontage Walls
ST DUNSTANS ABBEY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS, NORTH ROAD WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386300
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- St Dunstans Abbey School and Attached Road Frontage Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ST DUNSTANS ABBEY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS, NORTH ROAD WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386300
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- St Dunstans Abbey School and Attached Road Frontage Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST DUNSTANS ABBEY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED ROAD FRONTAGE WALLS, NORTH ROAD WEST
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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 SCHOOL 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 46879 54927
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654NW NORTH ROAD WEST, Stonehouse 740-1/56/824 (North side) 01/05/75 St Dunstan's Abbey School and attached road-frontage walls (Formerly Listed as: NORTH ROAD, Plymouth St Dunstan's Abbey School)
GV II*
Abbey school. 1850 by William Butterfield. MATERIALS: Plymouth limestone rubble with yellow stone dressings; dry slate roofs with exposed rafter ends and crested clay ridge tiles; louvred triangular ventilators near the ridge; half-hipped dormer windows breaking the eaves of the main block; hipped roof to near-central wing; outbuilt rubble lateral and gable stacks with dressed stone shafts, some round, one octagonal. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: overall an F-shaped plan, the shaft of the F forming the road frontage, a deep wing at right angles behind the left-hand side and a shorter wing at right angles to rear right of centre. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; long road-frontage elevation with tall plinth and 2-bay gable end of cross wing on the left. Mostly 3-light windows with lancets, the dormered windows with transoms; some lights with trefoil heads. Pointed-arched doorway right of cross wing. Courtyard elevation of main block has central semicircular entrance turret with porch roof projection carried on moulded corbels. There are 2 pairs of flanking 3-light dormers and similar dormers left of the wing. There is a C20 conservatory in front of most of ground floor and returning to the wing. Cross wing has similar detail to its courtyard elevation but its opposite elevation facing south-west has a series of 7 pairs of close-set lancets under the eaves and 4 pairs of lancets to the ground floor. Right of this is a single lancet to each floor and a small square window to ground-floor right. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: tall rubble wall to road frontage; blocked gateway to SW corner with 1 dressed stone pier with squat pyramidal cap. An outstanding example of Butterfield's work. See Pevsner for further details of history. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 659).
Listing NGR: SX4687954927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473685
- 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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