Numbers 2 to 12 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
NUMBERS 2 TO 12 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 2-12, THE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386445
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 to 12 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 2 TO 12 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 2-12, THE CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386445
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 to 12 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 2 TO 12 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 2-12, THE CRESCENT
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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:
- NUMBERS 2 TO 12 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 2-12, 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:
- SX4741954231
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4754 THE CRESCENT, Hoe
740-1/57/295 (South side)
25/01/54 Nos.2-12 (Consecutive)
and attached forecourt walls and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
THE CRESCENT, Plymouth
Nos.1-12 (Consecutive))
GV II
Part of planned crescent. c1860s after a design by George
Wightwick. Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate mansard roofs
behind parapet with band; attic windows, most with sashes;
rendered copings between roofs, brick stacks over most, some
with old clay pots. Double-depth plan arranged in mirror-image
pairs with paired entrances, the right-hand house a half pair,
the 6 houses to the right of this destroyed in the Blitz.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic over basement; each house a
3-window range. Sashes, some with glazing bars. Ground-floor
openings within recessed panels with segmental arches; sill
bands and giant pilasters between houses to upper floors and
windows with recessed architraves. Overlights and panelled
doors.
INTERIOR: former list description: No.11 has geometric
staircase in circular well; vaulted vestibule and curved
doorcases with key-motif decoration; 1st floor with tapered
and eared doorcases and cornices to ceilings. No.12 the same
but without ground-floor curved doors and key-motif decoration
to doorcases.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls with low plinths
surmounted by wrought-iron railings with vase balusters.
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.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
638; Colvin H: A Bibliographical Dictionary of British
Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 888-890).
Listing NGR: SX4741954231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473832
- 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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