Lockyer Court

Lockyer Court comprises two houses at the end of a planned terrace, originally an orphanage and later a hospital. The building dates from the early to mid-19th century, with a 20th-century extension in a Neo-Classical style. The construction is stucco with stucco detailing; it has a roof hidden behind a moulded entablature, and the parapet of number 15 is taller and incorporates attic windows. The building has a double-depth plan, extended to the rear at a later date.

The exterior is three storeys plus an attic, over a basement, and has a three-window range, with number 15 featuring giant pilasters flanking the upper-floor bays. The windows are late 19th or 20th-century horned sashes, with those on the ground floor set within round-arched openings. Architectural features include channelled rustication to the ground floor with an impost string and voussoirs, a string above, and a balustraded balcony with a moulded cornice on a square basement structure on the far right. A late-20th-century, neo-classical return elevation has three, two, and three bays, a balustraded parapet, and two open pediments over paired giant Ionic pilasters, incorporating mostly blind openings.

The interior remains uninspected, but may retain original features of interest.

The building is included for group value as part of an important planned group of terraces and villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick on the Hoe. This scheme positioned Plymouth at the forefront of town planning in the early to mid-19th century.