13 Melville Street
13, Melville Street, Ryde, PO33 2AF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1485118
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- 13 Melville Street
- Statutory Address:
- 13, Melville Street, Ryde, PO33 2AF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1485118
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- 13 Melville Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13, Melville Street, Ryde, PO33 2AF
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:
- 13, Melville Street, Ryde, PO33 2AF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ryde
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ5945092578
Reasons for Designation
Built in about the 1830s, No.13 Melville Street is a good example of a stuccoed villa of the period in a group of similar houses.
Details
SZ59459257
632/0/10027
RYDE
MELVILLE STREET
No. 13
GV
II
House. Circa 1830s. Stuccoed. Low-pitched slate hipped roof with deep eaves. Rendered side stacks with clay pots.
PLAN: Double depth plan 3-bay house with central entrance and service bay on left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Symmetrical 3-bay south front with giant corner pilasters, sash windows with
glazing bars, ground floor 12-panes, first floor 9-panes; central chamfered doorway in elliptically arched recess and with
6-panel door. 2-storey 1-bay on left with parapet, 9-pane sashes and glazed and panelled door.
Rear, north, giant pilasters, three bays, left two bays in 2-storey bow with deep eaves and semi-conical roof above, 12-
pane sashes, ground floor left a later French casement; 2-storey 1-bay on left slightly set back and with lean-to roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A good example of an 1830s stuccoed villa and one of a group of similar houses in Melville Street.
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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