Listing Text

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW SOUTHSIDE STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/69 (South side)
25/01/54 No.51
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTHSIDE STREET, Plymouth
No.51)

GV II

Large merchant's house. Probably early C17.
MATERIALS: plastered timber-framed jettied front over Plymouth
limestone rubble to ground floor and left-hand return;
limestone quoins of a lighter colour; pair of steep slate
roofs with gable ends to the street; moulded barge boards and
3 original turned pendants to valley and apices; rubble axial
and outbuilt lateral stacks to left-hand return and lateral
stacks to party wall on the right.
PLAN: deep plan with through passage left of centre.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 2nd floor partly in roof space;
3-window range. C20 copy oak mullioned windows with leaded
lights. 2nd floor has canted 3-light plus sidelights oriels
with moulded cornices and the windows are carried on shaped
and carved brackets. Similar but wider and taller (6-light)
transomed oriel to centre of 1st floor flanked by flat 3-light
transomed windows, all with ovolo-moulded mullions and frames.
Ground floor has original moulded doorway with mitred head and
old wrought-iron gate; 2 windows left of doorway and 3 windows
to right.
INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes a
timber newel staircase with panelled sides, and to 1st floor a
wide timber doorcase with moulded jambs with carved stops.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
663).

Listing NGR: SX4814554140