Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 LOCKYER STREET, Hoe
740-1/57/290 (West side)
Invicta Hotel

GV II

Includes: Nos.11 AND 12 OSBORNE PLACE Hoe.
Pair of houses in a planned street, now an hotel. Mid C19.
Stucco; asbestos slate mansard roof with 4 dormer windows over
a moulded parapet cornice; stuccoed end and axial stacks with
moulded cornices and many old pots. Double-depth plan.
3 storeys; symmetrical 4-window front with late C19 horned
sashes. Stucco detail includes: rusticated quoins; tetrastyle
Corinthian porch with moulded cornice surmounted by a latticed
balustrade repeated over flanking slightly-projecting
tripartite windows linked by a string; 1st floor with moulded
eared architraves and moulded hoods, and 2nd floor with sill
string, round sill brackets and eared architraves to shorter
window openings. Central pair of segmental-arched doorways
with panelled doors and overlights.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
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: SX4763054054

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407224

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)