The Ferns
THE FERNS, SEYMOUR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386388
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Ferns
- Statutory Address:
- THE FERNS, SEYMOUR ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-09-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/05551/19
- Rights:
- © Mr Gerald Rendle. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386388
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Ferns
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FERNS, SEYMOUR ROAD
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:
- THE FERNS, SEYMOUR 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:
- SX 48646 56256
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4856SE SEYMOUR ROAD, Mannamead 740-1/38/334 (North side) 01/05/75 The Ferns (Formerly Listed as: SEYMOUR ROAD, Plymouth The Ferns)
GV II
Detached villa. Mid C19. Stucco; dry slate hipped roof with dentilled eaves cornice; stuccoed end stacks. Double-depth plan with probably 2 rooms at the front flanking a central entrance hall. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay front with centre bay broken forward and surmounted by a triangular pediment with dentilled cornices. 4-pane sashes to 1st floor; canted bay windows to ground-floor left and right with moulded cornice linked to string course. Central porch with rusticated round-arched doorway; cast-iron railings to parapet above. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. One of a good group of villas in Mannamead which was developed after 1851. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 669).
Listing NGR: SX4864656256
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473773
- 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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