FORMER WESTERN COLLEGE (ORIGINAL BLOCK)

FORMER WESTERN COLLEGE (ORIGINAL BLOCK), 5-17, WESTERN COLLEGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386494
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: FORMER WESTERN COLLEGE (ORIGINAL BLOCK)
Statutory Address:: FORMER WESTERN COLLEGE (ORIGINAL BLOCK), 5-17, WESTERN COLLEGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386494
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: FORMER WESTERN COLLEGE (ORIGINAL BLOCK)
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER WESTERN COLLEGE (ORIGINAL BLOCK), 5-17, WESTERN COLLEGE ROAD

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:: FORMER WESTERN COLLEGE (ORIGINAL BLOCK), 5-17, WESTERN COLLEGE ROAD

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:: SX4854856117

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4856SE WESTERN COLLEGE ROAD, Mannamead 740-1/38/338 (North side) 10/12/97 Nos.5-17 (Odd) Former Western College (original block)

II

Congregational theological college. 1861. By J Hine. Plymouth limestone rubble brought to course and Bath stone dressings; steep dry slate roofs, spire to taller entrance porch and steep pyramidal roofs to lower wings set back at left and right; coped over the party walls; large gabled roof dormers with canted bay windows. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: large irregular double-depth plan with central principal entrance block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 1:4:1:4:1-window range front plus wing set back at either end. Paired pointed-arched lights under pointed arch with blind plate tracery to ground floor; 2 small gabled porches: left of centre (with buttress behind) and towards left, both with triple-arched door heads and cusped overlights; 2 doorways towards right with similar heads contrived out of the right-hand lights of 2 of the windows, all with planked doors; carved impost string and carved capitals to mullion shafts. 1st floor with sill string, paired square-headed lights and carved capitals to taller mullion shafts, bay left of main porch taller and 3-light window with pointed lights under a rose window within a gable. Entrance tower has canted front with 2-light windows with cusped heads under star tracery, each window over a pointed-arched doorway. Ground-floor windows with glazing bars; 1st-floor windows with pointed heads over transoms. INTERIOR: large entrance hall has canted glazed and panelled entrance screen with pointed arches and fielded panels; 3 pointed arches to rear, the central arch a niche containing 3 arches; moulded plaster ceiling cornice. Otherwise not inspected. Imaginative use of the Gothic style. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 658).

Listing NGR: SX4854856117

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Legacy System number:: 473881
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 658

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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.