Corporation Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1988. Housing terrace.
Corporation Buildings
- WRENN ID
- heavy-thatch-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1988
- Type
- Housing terrace
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PLYMOUTH
SX4854SW HOW STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/10 (South side) 19/12/88 Nos.16-21 (Consecutive) Corporation Buildings
GV II
Marked Nos 10-15 on OS map. Terrace of local authority housing with corner shop. c1900. Painted brick walls, concrete floors and staircases; dry slate stepped roofs with slightly projecting eaves, hipped at the ends; deep brick end stacks with stepped cornices. Double-depth plan with mews street at rear; each house has central ground-floor through passage and is divided into 1-bedroom tenements. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; each house has symmetrical 3-window front except house with corner shop on its right. Original 12-pane horned sashes with segmental heads; similar heads to central doorways with overlights and panelled doors. Moulded entablature with consoles clasping corner over original pilastered double shopfront with transoms to the front windows and plate glass to the 2 large windows to right-hand return. At rear each house is a 4-window range with original windows: 12-pane sashes flanking single lights. Flat-roofed stores with planked doors linked to dwarf walls surmounted by steel balustrades. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of a complete block of practically unaltered early local authority housing. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 663 & 664).
Listing NGR: SX4811054412
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