Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 CITADEL ROAD, Hoe
740-1/57/268 (South side)
23/12/97 Nos.214-220 (Even)
and attached forecourt walls

GV II

Includes: No.1 LEIGHAM STREET Hoe.
Part of planned terrace of houses with palace frontage also
with returned street corner frontage, now flats. c1870s.
Stucco; originally slate roofs not visible; rendered axial
stacks; moulded cornice above attic storey. Double-depth plan,
Nos 214 and 216 with central break for pedimented mansion
house front and No.1 Leigham Street (right-hand return) with
forward break for entrance bay.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic storey over basement; overall
7-window-range front plus 2-window-range return. Original
12-pane hornless sashes to 1st and 2nd floors except for
tripartite windows to pedimented forward break, the 1st-floor
window with small pediment and the attic-storey pediment with
a Venetian window, also paired round-arched lights to first
floor of forward break of right-hand return. Ground floor has
original 12-pane sashes or tripartite sashes in segmental
arched openings. Stucco detail includes: rustication to ground
floor and 1st floor of pedimented bay, otherwise rusticated
quoins, mid-floor bands and 1st-floor sill strings linked to
balustraded balconies, moulded architraves and moulded hoods
on consoles to 1st floor and moulded sills on brackets to 2nd
floor; above the 2nd floor is a moulded cornice with
modillions, the same detail repeated to the pediment. Pairs of
round-arched keyed doorways, each doorway flanked by Tuscan
half-columns and with a shared moulded entablature above. The
doorways of the central houses have pair of windows between
and the left-hand doorway is to the left of the main break.
Panelled doors and plain glazed fanlights.
INTERIOR: not inspected but very likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stuccoed forecourt walls with panelled or
turned balustrades.
A good quality design in the Classical stucco tradition. A
late but distinguished example of a stuccoed terrace design,
which makes a significant contribution to an important planned
group.

Listing NGR: SX4744854079

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615536

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)