Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 ATHENEUM STREET, Hoe 740-1/57/259 (East side) 25/01/54 Nos.30 AND 31 and attached forecourt walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: ATHENAEUM STREET, Plymouth Nos.15-19, 22-30 AND 31)

GV II

Includes: No.83 CITADEL ROAD Hoe. Pair of houses in planned street. 1829, attributed to John Foulston, remodelled late C19. Stucco, with stucco detail, on probable rubble; dry slate mansard roof behind parapet with entablature with moulded cornice and panelled centre break; 4 mansard dormers with sashes; brick end stacks, the right-hand stack truncated. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic over basement; 4-bay front with canted bays at left and right and entrance bay of No.30 left of centre, No.31 (right) with entrance to Citadel Road. Late C19 horned sashes, most with vertical glazing bars to No.30. Stucco detail includes: original recessed panel to ground-floor centre, channelled rustication to ground floor of bay windows, sill string and moulded architraves to 1st floor. Good entrance porch to No.30, with eared architrave, moulded entablature and balustraded parapet; 6-panel door within porch. INTERIOR: not inspected but may be of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls and entrance bridge with wrought-iron railings with arrow-head finials and stanchions with flaming-urn finials; original iron gate with anthemion decoration to No.30. Part of an important planned group on the Hoe. No.31 was listed on 01/05/75. (Cox J and Thorp J (Keystone, Historic Buildings Consultants): Atheneum Street, Plymouth, Devon: K426 2; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 664).





Listing NGR: SX4751554217

External Links

• Wikidata Q26423080

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