Numbers 1 To 4 And Attached Walls, Steps And Railings

PLYMOUTH

SX4654 HOE GARDENS, Hoe 740-1/57/273 (North side) Nos.1-4 (Consecutive) and attached walls, steps and railings

GV II

Planned mews terrace. Mid C19. Stucco with stucco detail; asbestos slate parallel roofs with copings over party walls and brick end and axial stacks. Double-depth plan, the 2 central houses each with 2 rooms at the front and central entrances, the end houses each with 1 room at the front and with entrance next to the central houses. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement; 2:3:3:2-window range. The central houses have segmental-arched openings except for pair of round-arched lights to each house over central doorway, the end houses each with similar single light over doorway and tripartite windows separated by a moulded entablature and mid-floor string to left or right, otherwise this string is plain. Other stucco detail includes: channelled rustication and keyed arches with voussoirs to ground floor; rusticated quoins to end houses at 1st floor, and most 1st-floor windows with plain architraves or pilasters and keyed arches. Possibly original horned sashes, overlights and panelled doors where original. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls, boundary walls and entrance bridges with ramped walls surmounted by wrought-iron railings with arrow-head finials and turned stanchions with turned finials. Included as part of an important planned group of terraces and villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick on the Hoe, a scheme which placed Plymouth in the forefront of town planning in the early/mid C19.

Listing NGR: SX4799454121