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

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