Ham House
HAM HOUSE, TEWKESBURY CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386436
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Ham House
- Statutory Address:
- HAM HOUSE, TEWKESBURY CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386436
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Ham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAM HOUSE, TEWKESBURY CLOSE
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:
- HAM HOUSE, TEWKESBURY CLOSE
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 46202 57672
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/02/2016
SX4657NW
740-1/26/252
PLYMOUTH, Ham,
TEWKESBURY CLOSE,
Ham House
25/01/54
(Formerly Listed as:
HAM, Ham House (Library))
II
Farmhouse, later a country house, more recently a library, a care home, and flats. 1639 for Robert Trelawney, a merchant of Plymouth, altered in 1739 and late C19, when most of the windows were replaced in the style of the original windows, and extensions were made at the rear. Rendered rubble with original granite dressings and C19 freestone dressings; steep dry slate roofs with slightly-projecting eaves and verges with barge boards with central pendants; 2 tall brick gable and lateral stacks with entablature to left and rear of left-hand wing, other stacks demolished or truncated. U-shaped plan plus T-plan wing at rear right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 1:2:1-window front with original moulded round-arched central doorway with date, carved spandrels and hoodmould; flanking original 2-light mullioned windows with 2-light C19 transomed windows above; full-width porch between wings carried on paired Tuscan columns at either end. Front of left-hand wing with 3-light windows, the other wing with 4-light windows, all C19 and with hoodmoulds; similar windows to side elevations. At rear of left-hand side is an C18 Venetian window with moulded cornices and leaded glazing.
Listing NGR: SX4620257672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473823
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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