Description

PLYMOUTH

SX5356SE UNDERWOOD ROAD, Plympton
740-1/40/452 (South side)
01/05/75 No.32

GV II

Small house in row. C17. Rubble walls containing some C17
dressed fragments, with some render being removed at time of
survey, limewashed rubble at rear; steep corrugated asbestos
roof; rubble stack on left with brick upper part.
PLAN: irregular plan with 2 rooms at the front with former
passage between; dairy behind hall/kitchen on the left and
central rear stair turret with winder stair to rear of
passage, and evidence for former winder stair to segmental
recess now fitted with window to the front left-hand side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. C20 horned sashes to
ground floor; late C20 windows to 1st floor and C20 door to
approximately central doorway. Rear has old wall surfaces and
much character.
INTERIOR: retains many features of interest including an old
1st-floor floor structure with a resited C17 chamfered axial
beam and wide elm boards; a C17 splayed kitchen fireplace with
chamfered granite jambs and a chamfered oak lintel;
stone-nogged partition to rear of kitchen and C18 winder stair
in a semicircular well. Roof structure not inspected but may
be of interest.
Some early features enhance the interest of this small house.

Listing NGR: SX5365956008

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666182

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)