12, THE BARBICAN
12, THE BARBICAN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386439
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 12, THE BARBICAN
- Statutory Address:
- 12, THE BARBICAN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386439
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 12, THE BARBICAN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, THE BARBICAN
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:
- 12, THE BARBICAN
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:
- SX4827454085
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW THE BARBICAN, Barbican
740-1/62/83 (West side)
25/01/54 No.12
(Formerly Listed as:
THE BARBICAN, Plymouth
No.12)
GV II
Merchant's house, now shops and flats. Mid-late C18. Painted
brick with rusticated stucco quoins and mid-floor bands;
concrete tile roof with 2 roof dormers with late C19 paired
sashes; brick end stacks; cast-iron ogee gutter. Deep plan.
4 storeys; symmetrical 5-window front. C20 copy 12-pane
hornless sashes. Ground floor has some surviving features of a
good pilastered shopfront incorporating central house doorway
with open pediment and modillion cornice linked to similar
entablature above C20-altered shopfronts, the one on the left
with a central doorway, the other with a doorway on the its
left. The house doorway has fluted pilasters with 2-tier
carved consoles and a 4-pane overlight above the original
6-panel door with flush bottom panels and fielded panels
above. Rear has tall staircase window.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
663).
Listing NGR: SX4827454085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473826
- 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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