Number 1 and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railings
NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, 1, THE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386444
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, 1, THE CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386444
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 and Attached Forecourt Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, 1, THE CRESCENT
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:
- NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, 1, THE CRESCENT
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 47480 54236
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4754 THE CRESCENT, Hoe 740-1/57/294 (South side) 25/01/54 No.1 and attached forecourt wall and railings (Formerly Listed as: THE CRESCENT, Plymouth Nos.1-12 (Consecutive))
GV II*
House at end of planned crescent. c1833 for John Marshall by George Wightwick (Colvin). Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate mansard roof behind stepped parapet with centre break; brick stack on the right. Double-depth plan with axial entrance hall approached from the left-hand side of the house. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic over basement; 4-bay front. Channelled rustication and segmental arches on impost string to ground floor and giant Ionic round-arched arcade above and with stepped panels between 1st and 2nd-floor windows. Ground and 2nd-floor windows are horned copies of original sashes with glazing bars; 1st floor with transomed casements, probably for access to probable former iron balconies. Left-hand return is 3 bays with narrower central entrance bay, the bays divided by pilasters, giant pilasters and approximately round arches to upper floors; ground-floor openings within recessed panels with segmental arches. Blind openings except for entrance bay and ground-floor left. Round-arched doorway with panelled pilasters with roundels; C20 overlight, door and sidelights. INTERIOR: former list description: good interior with oval staircase well with segmental saucer-shaped dome, geometric staircase. Hall and landing doorcases with key motif or incised friezes. Vaulted vestibule. 1st-floor room and ante room with cornices, key-motif architraves and segmental end walls. 2 ground-floor rooms with acanthus-leaf decorated cornices and one with key-motif frieze. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls with plinth surmounted by wrought-iron railings with arrow-head finials. A fine example of its type. Part of an important planned group of terraces and villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick on the Hoe, a scheme which placed Plymouth in the forefront of town planning in the early/mid C19. (Colvin H: A Bibliographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 888-890 & 318-319; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 638).
Listing NGR: SX4748054236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473831
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 888-890
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 638
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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