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PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW VAUXHALL STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/104 (South side)
Nos.82 AND 84
Barbican Antiques Centre

GV II

2 pairs of warehouses, now used as 1 shop. Mid/late C19.
Plymouth limestone rubble with brick dressings including brick
mid-floor band to upper floors, stucco to ground floor of
street front; hipped slate parallel roofs, each roof divided
by a coping. Overall a square-plan block, probably built in 2
phases.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 6-window paired street front
with splayed corners. Segmental arches over 6-pane windows to
upper floors, C20 windows with leaded glazing to ground floor,
all in deep reveals. The stuccoed shopfrontage has a moulded
capital string and a plain fascia surmounted by a cornice;
there are 2 narrow shop doorways and a window to either side
of each. Right-hand return has loading frontage of 2
warehouses, wider frontage on the left; each nearly
symmetrical 2-window range frontage has central loading
doorways; wider doorways to ground floor, the right-hand
doorway widened; loading boom above eaves. The other warehouse
has had its right-hand doorway converted to a doorway and the
window above blocked with rubble.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX4825354260