PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART)

PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART), ST LAWRENCE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386363
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART)
Statutory Address:: PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART), ST LAWRENCE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386363
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART)
Statutory Address 1:: PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART), ST LAWRENCE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (PART), ST LAWRENCE ROAD

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:: SX4824055400

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4855 ST LAWRENCE ROAD, Plymouth 740-1/43/415 (North side) Plymouth High School for Girls (part)

GV II

School. 1877 datestone. Plymouth limestone brought to course and with freestone dressings; steep dry slate roofs, with parapet to front roof; stone axial stacks with octagonal shafts and moulded cornices. Tudor Gothic style. Deep overall L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: symmetrical 3-bay front with central recessed bay. Plinth, lintel strings and 1st-floor sill strings. Central bay has moulded corbelled oriel on buttress flanked by pair of 4-centred arched doorways with hoodmoulds and original overlights and wide glazed and panelled doors with coloured leaded glass. The canted oriel has very steep polygonal roof behind a parapet; 3-light mullioned centre and single sidelights and a panelled apron with shields; single light window to either side of oriel. Each flanking bay has 3-light mullioned window over pair of transomed 2-light windows with buttress between. Left-hand return bay has coped gable over stepped 4-light window over pair of 3-light windows. The return is then built forward as a symmetrical front with central gabled bay with pair of 2-light transomed windows and similar pairs of windows to flanking bays. INTERIOR: not inspected. A good example of its type, strongly articulated and with some good detail to the front facing North Hill.

Listing NGR: SX4824055400

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Legacy System number:: 473748
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.