115-131, VAUXHALL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386490
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: 115-131, VAUXHALL STREET
Statutory Address:: 115-131, VAUXHALL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386490
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 115-131, VAUXHALL STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 115-131, VAUXHALL STREET

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

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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:: 115-131, 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 48240 54397

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW VAUXHALL STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/102 (West side) 19/12/88 Nos.115-131 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: VAUXHALL STREET, Barbican Nos.115-137 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of local authority housing (renumbered so that 132-137 no longer exist). Completed 1898, by James Paton, Borough Engineer and Architect. Painted brick walls, concrete floors and staircases; dry slate roofs with crested clay ridge tiles; brick end stacks. PLAN: double-depth plan, plus rear wings to enclosed courtyards, the overall plan is of 2 similar blocks taking 2 street corners, the block on the right with canted corner and returned into How Street; each house with a central through passage giving access to 1-bedroom flats and staircase to similar upper flats. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3:3-window range with paired windows to side bays of each unit to ground and 1st floors. Original horned sashes with glazing bars to upper parts only; shouldered lintels to 1st and 2nd floors. The canted corner is a 1-window range with a blind gable end on its right. There is a cental doorway to each unit with overlight and panelled door. To right of left-hand doorway is granite plaque to record that the block was opened on 5th December 1898 by Alderman John Peltick, the designer being John Paton, and Contractors were Wakeham Brothers. INTERIOR: not inspected but is much as built. Rare virtually complete early example of local authority housing and part of a planned group with housing in How Street and Looe Street (qqv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663 & 664).

Listing NGR: SX4823654388

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Legacy System number:: 473877
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 663-664

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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.