Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW THE BARBICAN, Barbican
740-1/62/81 (West side)
01/05/75 No.6
(Formerly Listed as:
THE BARBICAN, Plymouth
No.6)

GV II

2 shops. Probably late C18. Brick with quoin strip on the left
and dressed Plymouth limestone quoins on the right; steep
slate roof behind plain parapet, hipped on the right; tall
brick end stack on the left and lateral stack at rear right.
Very shallow-depth plan.
4 storeys; 3-window range. Original or early C19 12-pane
hornless sashes and later paired 4-pane sashes to centre.
Mid-floor and parapet painted panels with lettering: "SOUTH
WESTERN RECEIVING OFFICE FOR GOODS AND PARCELS TO ALL PARTS".
Ground floor has full-width moulded entablature with consoles
over 2 pilastered early C19 double shopfronts, the left-hand
shopfront complete but with windows blocked, the other
shopfront with small panes and with another similar window to
right-hand return.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may be of interest.

Listing NGR: SX4830354025

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666147

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)