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Corporation Buildings

A Grade II Listed Building in Plymouth, City of Plymouth

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3698 / 50°22'11"N

Longitude: -4.1368 / 4°8'12"W

OS Eastings: 248135

OS Northings: 54389

OS Grid: SX481543

Mapcode National: GBR RC7.40

Mapcode Global: FRA 2872.06C

Plus Code: 9C2Q9V97+W7

Entry Name: Corporation Buildings

Listing Date: 19 December 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1113368

English Heritage Legacy ID: 473585

Also known as: 16-22 Corporation Buildings, Looe Street

ID on this website: 101113368

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 Terrace of houses

Description


PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW LOOE STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/13 (North side) 19/12/88 Nos.16-22 (Consecutive) Corporation Buildings

GV II

Marked Nos 10-15 on OS map. Terrace of local authority housing with corner shop. Very early C20. Painted brick walls, concrete floors and staircases; dry slate stepped roofs with slightly projecting eaves, hipped at the ends; deep brick end stacks with stepped cornices. Double-depth plan with mews street at rear; each house has central ground-floor through passage and is divided into 1-bedroom tenements. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; each house has symmetrical 3-window front except for house on left with canted corner bay with doorway dividing shop windows of corner shop and house doorway on its right. Original 12-pane horned sashes with segmental heads; similar heads to central doorways with overlights and panelled doors. Shop has original pilastered 9-pane shop window to front and identical window to left-hand return; fluted consoles over the pilasters and moulded cornices over the fascia. Above the shop doorway is a round plaque inscribed: "SIR FRANCIS DRAKE IN THE YEAR OF THE SPANISH ARMADA OWNED A HOUSE AND GROUNDS ON THIS SITE AND PROBABLY HERE RESIDED". Rear of each house is a 4-window range with original windows: 12-pane sashes flanking single lights. Flat-roofed stores with planked doors linked by dwarf walls surmounted by steel balustrades. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of a complete block of practically unaltered early local authority housing. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663 & 664).



Listing NGR: SX4823454369

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