Numbers 10-14 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1954. House. 4 related planning applications.
Numbers 10-14 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- tangled-thatch-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 10-14 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings, Athenaeum Street, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 474 541
- Coordinates
- 50.36762, -4.14594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 10-14 and their attached forecourt walls and railings are a half-pair and two pairs of houses built around 1829, likely designed by John Foulston. They form part of a planned street on the Hoe in Plymouth. The construction is stucco over probable rubble, with dry slate and asbestos slate roofs concealed behind parapets. These parapets feature a moulded cornice and segmental-roofed attic dormers, except for numbers 10 and 14 which have later dormers. Brick end stacks are also present.
The houses originally followed a double-depth plan with rear service wings. The two-storey facades, originally ten windows wide, showcase various original stucco details. These include channelled rustication to the ground floor of numbers 10 and 12, recessed segmental-arched panels to each ground-floor bay, and moulded first-floor architraves on numbers 10, 11 and 14. Sill strings run across all windows. While most windows are replacements from the late 20th century, number 11 retains an original 16-pane hornless sash window in the basement. Numbers 11 and 12 retain their original pilastered porch with a segmental-arched pediment featuring a central wreath, while numbers 13 and 14 only have remnants of their pediment, the rest being a 20th-century replacement. The interiors remain uninspected, but may contain original features of interest.
The forecourt walls are topped by wrought-iron railings with arrowhead finials and stanchions, some featuring urn finials. Despite damage from the Blitz, the street remains a good example of early 19th-century house design and is part of an important planned group on the Hoe.
Local climate
Numbers 10-14 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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