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ELLIOT TERRACE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 INCLUDING 6A AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS

ELLIOT TERRACE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 INCLUDING 6A AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 1-8, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386463
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1975
List Entry Name:: ELLIOT TERRACE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 INCLUDING 6A AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: ELLIOT TERRACE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 INCLUDING 6A AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 1-8, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386463
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: ELLIOT TERRACE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 INCLUDING 6A AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: ELLIOT TERRACE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 INCLUDING 6A AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 1-8, THE PROMENADE

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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Statutory Address:: ELLIOT TERRACE NUMBERS 1 TO 8 INCLUDING 6A AND WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 1-8, THE PROMENADE

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:: SX4752353946

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PLYMOUTH

SX4753 THE PROMENADE, Hoe 740-1/66/300 Elliott Terrace Nos 1-8 (consec) 01/05/75 including No.6A and walls & gate-piers (Formerly Listed as: THE PROMENADE, Plymouth Elliott Terrace Nos 1-6 (consec). No.6A. Nos 7 and 8)

GV II*

Planned terrace of 9 houses. Mid C19, possibly by George Wightwick. MATERIALS: stucco with stucco detail; dry slate mansard roof, hipped returns at the ends, behind incomplete parapet with heavy moulded cornice with modillions and dentils; complete parapet with oculi to house on left and part of similar parapet to house on the right; complete balustraded parapet to house 5th from left; stuccoed copings and stacks over the cross walls, the stacks with modillion cornices; 3 round-arched attic windows to each house. Italianate style with palace front. PLAN: double-depth plan plus integral service wings at the rear; 7 houses facing The Hoe, 2 houses facing left and right. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys plus attic over basement; 7 x 3-window fronts, the central and end bays broken forward; round-arched openings, most with original sashes. Original stucco detail includes: channelled rustication to ground floor, pilastered sash boxes; modillion cornices above between brackets supporting balcony with paired balustrades. 1st floor has recessed arches, dentilled imposts and cornices between paired brackets supporting balustraded balcony; ogee-arched sashes. 2nd floor has pilasters, consoles and hoods, and sashes with round-arched lights. Upper floor has sill string, moulded impost string and arches, panels to spandrels and the original windows are recessed paired sashes with pilastered boxes and round-arched lights. There are 2 paired porches, central to the paired recessed houses, with Corinthian columns, entablature and modillion cornices; panelled doors and plain fanlights. The central house has doorway on its left, the end houses have doorways to their 2:3-window return elevations which have details that are similar to the front elevation. These elevations and rear have most of the original stucco detail and original hornless sashes. Left-hand return is 2:1:1:4 bays with 2 doorways. Right-hand return is 5-window range plus service wing on its right. Rear has a stepped parapet with a 5-window range (upper floor) to each house. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to have features which reflect the richly-detailed exterior. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: freestone and dressed granite forecourt walls and granite gate-piers with plinths and moulded caps. This terrace is one of the most prominent compositions on the Hoe. 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; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 665; Richardson AE: Regional Architecture of the West of England: London: 1924-: 54).

Listing NGR: SX4752353946

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 473850
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), 665
Richardson, A E , Regional Architecture of the West of England, (1924), 54

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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.