Plymouth High School For Girls (Part)

PLYMOUTH

SX4855 ST LAWRENCE ROAD, Plymouth 740-1/43/415 (North side) Plymouth High School for Girls (part)

GV II

School. 1877 datestone. Plymouth limestone brought to course and with freestone dressings; steep dry slate roofs, with parapet to front roof; stone axial stacks with octagonal shafts and moulded cornices. Tudor Gothic style. Deep overall L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: symmetrical 3-bay front with central recessed bay. Plinth, lintel strings and 1st-floor sill strings. Central bay has moulded corbelled oriel on buttress flanked by pair of 4-centred arched doorways with hoodmoulds and original overlights and wide glazed and panelled doors with coloured leaded glass. The canted oriel has very steep polygonal roof behind a parapet; 3-light mullioned centre and single sidelights and a panelled apron with shields; single light window to either side of oriel. Each flanking bay has 3-light mullioned window over pair of transomed 2-light windows with buttress between. Left-hand return bay has coped gable over stepped 4-light window over pair of 3-light windows. The return is then built forward as a symmetrical front with central gabled bay with pair of 2-light transomed windows and similar pairs of windows to flanking bays. INTERIOR: not inspected. A good example of its type, strongly articulated and with some good detail to the front facing North Hill.

Listing NGR: SX4824055400