Former Western College (Original Block)
FORMER WESTERN COLLEGE (ORIGINAL BLOCK), 5-17, WESTERN COLLEGE ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473881
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 658
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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