Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4755 PORTLAND VILLAS, Plymouth
740-1/42/400 (North side)
01/05/75 No.16
including attached garden walls and
gate-piers at the front

GV II

Villa in planned group of villas. Mid C19. Stucco with stucco
detail; dry slate hipped roof with projecting eaves.
Double-depth plan, probably with 2 rooms at the front and
central entrance hall.
2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Hornless sashes without
glazing bars. Stucco detail includes: channelled rustication
to ground floor with rusticated voussoirs to segmental-arched
windows; end pilasters and mid-floor band. Central pilastered
porch has consoles and moulded hood to doorway and moulded
cornice surmounted by a parapet with central turned
balustrade; overlight and pair of panelled doors.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: garden walls at either side returned
parallel to the front of the house as low coped stuccoed wall
to square gate-piers with plinths and squat pyramidal caps.
Part of a good group of mid C19 villas.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
669).

Listing NGR: SX4780655138

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666050

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