Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4654 HOE GARDENS, Hoe
740-1/57/273 (North side)
Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
and attached walls, steps and
railings

GV II

Planned mews terrace. Mid C19. Stucco with stucco detail;
asbestos slate parallel roofs with copings over party walls
and brick end and axial stacks. Double-depth plan, the 2
central houses each with 2 rooms at the front and central
entrances, the end houses each with 1 room at the front and
with entrance next to the central houses.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement; 2:3:3:2-window range. The
central houses have segmental-arched openings except for pair
of round-arched lights to each house over central doorway, the
end houses each with similar single light over doorway and
tripartite windows separated by a moulded entablature and
mid-floor string to left or right, otherwise this string is
plain. Other stucco detail includes: channelled rustication
and keyed arches with voussoirs to ground floor; rusticated
quoins to end houses at 1st floor, and most 1st-floor windows
with plain architraves or pilasters and keyed arches. Possibly
original horned sashes, overlights and panelled doors where
original.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls, boundary walls and
entrance bridges with ramped walls surmounted by wrought-iron
railings with arrow-head finials and turned stanchions with
turned finials.
Included as part of an important planned group of terraces and
villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick on the Hoe, a
scheme which placed Plymouth in the forefront of town planning
in the early/mid C19.

Listing NGR: SX4799454121

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407205

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)