Numbers 20 and 21 Including Attached Garden Walls and Gate Piers at the Front
NUMBERS 20 AND 21 INCLUDING ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS AT THE FRONT, 20 AND 21, PORTLAND VILLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386339
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20 and 21 Including Attached Garden Walls and Gate Piers at the Front
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 20 AND 21 INCLUDING ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS AT THE FRONT, 20 AND 21, PORTLAND VILLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386339
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20 and 21 Including Attached Garden Walls and Gate Piers at the Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 20 AND 21 INCLUDING ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS AT THE FRONT, 20 AND 21, PORTLAND VILLAS
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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:
- NUMBERS 20 AND 21 INCLUDING ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS AT THE FRONT, 20 AND 21, PORTLAND VILLAS
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:
- SX4789155150
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4755 PORTLAND VILLAS, Plymouth
740-1/42/404 (North side)
01/05/75 Nos.20 AND 21
including attached garden walls &
gate-piers at the front
GV II
Unequal pair of villas in planned group of villas. Mid-late
C19. Stucco with stucco detail; steep asbestos slate roofs
behind parapets with moulded entablature and with 2 coped
front gables to cross wings, right of centre and on the right;
stuccoed lateral stacks surmounted by diagonally-set shafts.
Simple Tudor Gothic style. Overall L-shaped irregular
double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (No.20, left) and 2 storeys over basement;
articulated 5-bay front with 1 window to 1st floor of each bay
and to 2nd floor of No.20 (2 bays). No.20 has
slightly-projecting bay on the left with pilastered canted bay
window with moulded entablature to ground floor; narrow
entrance bay with 4-centred arched doorway of 2 orders and
panelled door, and projecting cross wing on the right, flush
with the front of No.21 and with window to each floor of its
left-hand return. Late C19 or C20 horned sashes without
glazing bars to left-hand bays of No.20; possibly original
2-light transomed mullioned windows with 4-centred arched top
lights to right-hand bay of No.20 and to right-hand bay of
No.21. The narrow entrance bay of No.21 has parapet over
single-light 1st-floor window and 4-centred arched doorway
with panelled and partly-glazed door set back. All the
openings have square hoodmoulds and there is a string above
the 1st-floor windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubble side garden walls linked to low
front wall with square gate-piers with squat pyramidal caps.
Part of a good group of mid C19 villas.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
669).
Listing NGR: SX4789155150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473724
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 669
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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