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Latitude: 50.37 / 50°22'12"N
Longitude: -4.136 / 4°8'9"W
OS Eastings: 248197
OS Northings: 54415
OS Grid: SX481544
Mapcode National: GBR RCC.FG
Mapcode Global: FRA 2872.0J4
Plus Code: 9C2Q9VC7+2J
Entry Name: Corporation Buildings and Attached Walls
Listing Date: 19 December 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1322001
English Heritage Legacy ID: 473542
Also known as: 1-15 Corporation Buildings and attached walls
1-15 Corporation Buildings, How Street
1-9 Corporation Buildings and attached walls
ID on this website: 101322001
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: Architectural structure Apartment building
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW HOW STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/9 (South 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 in occupation, with extra rear 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 to No.15 on return street at left 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 brick walls to street frontage.
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: SX4811054412
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