Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 ALFRED STREET, Hoe
740-1/57/254 (North side)
Nos.1-15 (Odd)
and attached road-frontage walls and
railings

GV II

Planned terrace of houses. c1820s-30s, possibly by Foulston.
Stucco with stucco detail; dry slate or asbestos slate roofs
behind parapet with moulded entablature and cornice, the
right-hand house with turned balustrade to centre of parapet;
segmental-roofed dormer windows; deep brick axial stacks and
end stack to left; many old clay pots. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic over basement; each house with
2-window-range front and doorway on its right. Original stucco
detail includes: channelled rustication to ground floors of 5
houses on the left with moulded mid-floor string above; plain
string to houses on right; pilastered doorways with moulded
capitals and cornices; and 5 houses on left and house at far
right with moulded window architraves to 1st floor. Most
houses with replacement horned sashes with glazing bars, some
with panelled doors.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ramped and coped stuccoed end walls to
forecourt with road-frontage plinth, most with wrought-iron
railings with spear-head finials and turned stanchions and
with similar railings flanking steps to doorways.
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 C19.

Listing NGR: SX4755454163

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423071

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)