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Corporation Buildings and Attached Walls

A Grade II Listed Building in Plymouth, City of Plymouth

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3698 / 50°22'11"N

Longitude: -4.136 / 4°8'9"W

OS Eastings: 248197

OS Northings: 54389

OS Grid: SX481543

Mapcode National: GBR RCC.FJ

Mapcode Global: FRA 2872.0J7

Plus Code: 9C2Q9V97+WJ

Entry Name: Corporation Buildings and Attached Walls

Listing Date: 19 December 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1113367

English Heritage Legacy ID: 473584

Also known as: 1-15 Corporation Buildings and attached walls
1-15 Corporation Buildings, Looe Street
1-9 Corporation Buildings and attached walls

ID on this website: 101113367

Location: Barbican, Plymouth, Devon, PL4

County: City of Plymouth

Electoral Ward/Division: St Peter and the Waterfront

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Plymouth

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Tagged with: Building Apartment building

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Description



PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW LOOE STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/12 (North side)
19/12/88 Nos.1-15 (Consecutive)
Corporation Buildings and attached
walls

GV II

Marked Nos 1-9 on OS map.
Terrace of local authority flats. Completed 1898. Painted
brick walls, stone sills, concrete floors, stairs and
landings; slate roofs with projecting eaves; clay tile
cresting and shaped finials; 7 gables with collared and
arch-braced trusses [over the paired windows of 2 out of 3
fronts]; deep brick axial stacks with stepped cornices. Early
local authority housing, commemorated on plaque attached to
Nos 115-131 (consec) Vauxhall Street (qv); the houses are
split horizontally by occupation, with extra access to the
upper floor.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with houses stepping up the street;
stepped corbelled segmental arches over alternating paired and
single 9/2-pane horned sash windows. Ground floor has plinth
and shaped string over openings with similar arches over
similar paired sashes alternating with paired doorways with
plain segmental arches, but single doorway at right and
doorway of No.15 on return at left-hand end; tall overlights
and 4-panel doors. Rear also unaltered and has dwarf boundary
walls linked to series of flying concrete staircases with
steel balustrades up to landings and doorways with 4-pane
overlights and partly glazed doors, each flanked by sash and
small light; similar arrangement of windows and doors to
ground floor.
INTERIORS not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES include brick walls to street frontage and
walls and staircases described above. Part of a complex of
practically unaltered early local authority housing.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
663 & 664).


Listing NGR: SX4817854392

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