Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4654NE NORTH ROAD WEST, Stonehouse 740-1/56/825 (North side) 01/05/75 St Dunstan's Abbey and attached road-frontage walls (Formerly Listed as: NORTH ROAD, Plymouth St Dunstan's Abbey)

GV II*

Abbey complex. Begun 1850, by William Butterfield. Plymouth limestone rubble with yellow stone dressings; weatherboarding to covered walk; steep dry slate roofs on several levels; crested clay ridge tiles; large stone lateral stacks. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: large irregular plan partly enclosing 2 courtyards with chapel to north; house north-east of chapel linked by a cloister to an L-shaped block to the south-east and there is another block to south-west of chapel plus a long single-storey covered walk beyond. There is a porter's lodge left of entrance and a further block east of chapel. EXTERIOR: single-storey chapel and covered walk, otherwise 2 storeys except for house which is 3 storeys; elevations mostly with irregularly disposed openings. Entrance to abbey has stone cross set in gable above. Porter's lodge has transomed gabled 2-light window with quatrefoil tracery. Chapel has 5-light window with geometric tracery to W end. 5-bay cloister in front of courtyard elevation of chapel; 2-light windows with hoodmoulds and large lateral stack on the left. Lower range returned in front to left of cloister with single and paired lights. The opposite elevation of this range has large central outbuilt gabled stack with 4 small windows; 2-light windows stepping up to left of this with central taller stair window. Wing south-west of chapel has coped gable end with 5-light window under a segmental arch; NW elevation has paired windows. House has single and paired lancets plus an oriel window breaking eaves to SE end; semicircular stair turret to left of NW elevation and canted end to NW elevation. The covered walk has a rubble plinth and weather- boarding above; there are 3-light wooden windows with trefoil-headed lights. INTERIOR: has many original features of interest. Chapel has doorways with 2 orders of pointed arches. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high rubble walls. An outstanding example of Butterfield's work. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 659).

Listing NGR: SX4693954980

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)