Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4654 CECIL STREET, Stonehouse
740-1/57/722 (West side)
St Boniface School

GV II

Bishop's house, now a school. 1859, probably by JA Hansom,
enlarged 1899. Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone
dressings including string courses; steep dry slate roofs with
coped gables; rear gabled dormers breaking the eaves and
hipped dormers front and rear of original house; stone stacks
with some render: end stacks except for large outbuilt lateral
stack to rear of original part. Gothic Revival style. Large
irregular plan with cross wing to left of original part,
another wing right of porch, the 1899 part with deeper plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic to original part otherwise 2
storeys plus attic; irregular 11-bay front. Transomed 2-light
and 3-light mullioned windows to most of the front openings, a
few with transoms to rear, many with 4-centred arched lights;
relieving arches. Original house has embattled porch between
wings and 4-centred arched doorway plus sidelights. Wing right
of porch has 3-light windows to front, single lights to
returns, and the wing has a hipped roof with the ridge running
over a gabled dormer, the barge boards forming an ogee arch. 2
light windows to bay right of this and then there is a
recessed 2-storey bay at far right adjoining the S aisle of
the St Mary & St Boniface RC Cathedral, Wyndham Street West
(qv). This bay has large gable over 2-light window breaking
the eaves, over a 3-light window. 1899 part on the left has
3-light windows, the central bay breaking the eaves under a
gable with a cross finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Prominently sited next to the RC Cathedral (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
674).

Listing NGR: SX4712854850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423101

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Recommended Books

• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)