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PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW
740-1/62/98
THE PARADE, Barbican
No.7

GV II

Formerly known as: No.50 VAUXHALL STREET.
Includes: Nos.1-4 BARBICAN COURT Barbican.
Warehouse incorporating remains of merchant's house, now
flats. C17 house; fireplace wall extended to create warehouse
with datestone inscribed "T.V. 1810". Plymouth limestone
rubble with some stone dressings and brick segmental arches
over the C19 openings; dry slate roof, hipped to front range
end on to the street. Deep plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window-range front end with C20 2-light
casements with glazing bars. Right-hand return is an irregular
1:2:2-window range with similar windows but no ground-floor
window openings. The 2-window range on the right is the
heightened internal side wall of the rear wing of the C17
house plus the internal wall of its gable end at far right.
There are three C17 moulded granite fireplaces: those to
ground floor with Plymouth limestone relieving arches, and the
1st-floor fireplace, above and to the left of the right-hand
fireplace (both to a projecting chimney breast) with a central
stepped triangular panel. All of these fireplaces are blocked
with rubble.
INTERIOR: of warehouse not inspected but likely to retain
original floors and roof structure.

Listing NGR: SX4814554219