4 Gascoyne Place Including Statuary Friezes in Rear Courtyard
4 GASCOYNE PLACE INCLUDING STATUARY FRIEZES IN REAR COURTYARD, LIPSON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390890
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 4 Gascoyne Place Including Statuary Friezes in Rear Courtyard
- Statutory Address:
- 4 GASCOYNE PLACE INCLUDING STATUARY FRIEZES IN REAR COURTYARD, LIPSON ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390890
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 4 Gascoyne Place Including Statuary Friezes in Rear Courtyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 GASCOYNE PLACE INCLUDING STATUARY FRIEZES IN REAR COURTYARD, LIPSON 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:
- 4 GASCOYNE PLACE INCLUDING STATUARY FRIEZES IN REAR COURTYARD, LIPSON 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:
- SX 48432 54762
Details
740-1/0/10066 LIPSON ROAD 01-APR-04 4 Gascoyne Place including statuary fr eizes in rear courtyard
GV II Terraced house. Circa early C19; remodelled circa mid C19. Stuccoed. Slate roof. Rendered chimney stack.
PLAN: Double-depth terraced house with one room at front and entrance hall to left. Courtyard at rear has friezes of statues on either side.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. 2-window south east front with moulded window architraves, ground floor with round arches; bands and moulded cornice to parapet; windows replaced by casements with glazing bars; Doric portico to left with fluted columns, now enclosed. At rear [NW] large wing on right with sash on first floor, other windows replaced.
INTERIOR largely intact and complete with much of the original joinery, including an open-well, open-string, stick-baluster staircase with a moulded mahogany handrail, panelled doors, panelled window shutters, cupboards, chimneypieces and ceiling cornices.
The most remarkable feature of the house is the friezes of statues in the rear courtyard, which comprise large life-size figures of relief sculptures lining the walls of the yard and standing in deep relief from the walls; made of cement reinforced with iron armatures and depicting figures of various nationalities and periods, including Egyptian, Classical and Biblical as well as a Roman soldier, an Albanian, English/ American gentlemen, a deer and a camel; claimed to have been recorded in deeds of 1834, but little is known about them, although the house is said to have been occupied by the Italian consulate in the late C19.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492332
- 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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