56, VAUXHALL STREET
56, VAUXHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386487
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 56, VAUXHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, VAUXHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386487
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 56, VAUXHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, VAUXHALL STREET
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:
- 56, VAUXHALL STREET
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 48164 54229
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW VAUXHALL STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/100 (South side) 01/05/75 No.56 (Formerly Listed as: WOOLSTER STREET, Plymouth No.49)
GV II
Bonded warehouse. Early C19. Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings; dry slate mansard roof end on to the street. Deep narrow plan. Tall and narrow, 3 storeys plus attic storey; symmetrical 2-window front with segmental arches over the openings (steeper arches to attic) and mid-floor string above ground floor. Original 2-light windows with iron bars, except smaller single-light attic windows above a sill string. Wide central doorway to each floor, the arch of the attic doorway forming the head of what appears visually to be one tall opening to the upper floors. This top doorway has a central loading boom and a rotatable loading bracket with wall-mounted bearings on its right. Wide ground-floor doorway with flanking narrower blocked doorways. The others have old pairs of ledged doors. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to retain original floor and roof structures.
Listing NGR: SX4816454229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473874
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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