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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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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.