51, SOUTHSIDE STREET
51, SOUTHSIDE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386406
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 51, SOUTHSIDE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 51, SOUTHSIDE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386406
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 51, SOUTHSIDE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 51, SOUTHSIDE STREET
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:
- 51, SOUTHSIDE STREET
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:
- SX4814554140
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW SOUTHSIDE STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/69 (South side)
25/01/54 No.51
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTHSIDE STREET, Plymouth
No.51)
GV II
Large merchant's house. Probably early C17.
MATERIALS: plastered timber-framed jettied front over Plymouth
limestone rubble to ground floor and left-hand return;
limestone quoins of a lighter colour; pair of steep slate
roofs with gable ends to the street; moulded barge boards and
3 original turned pendants to valley and apices; rubble axial
and outbuilt lateral stacks to left-hand return and lateral
stacks to party wall on the right.
PLAN: deep plan with through passage left of centre.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 2nd floor partly in roof space;
3-window range. C20 copy oak mullioned windows with leaded
lights. 2nd floor has canted 3-light plus sidelights oriels
with moulded cornices and the windows are carried on shaped
and carved brackets. Similar but wider and taller (6-light)
transomed oriel to centre of 1st floor flanked by flat 3-light
transomed windows, all with ovolo-moulded mullions and frames.
Ground floor has original moulded doorway with mitred head and
old wrought-iron gate; 2 windows left of doorway and 3 windows
to right.
INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes a
timber newel staircase with panelled sides, and to 1st floor a
wide timber doorcase with moulded jambs with carved stops.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
663).
Listing NGR: SX4814554140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473792
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 663
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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