Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. A Victorian House. 6 related planning applications.
Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- seventh-sandstone-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- House
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings, Lockyer Street, City of Plymouth, PL1 2PU
- OS grid reference
- SX 476 539
- Coordinates
- 50.36606, -4.14387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 3 and 4 are a pair of houses built in the mid-19th century as part of a planned terrace on the Hoe in Plymouth. They were designed as a group of terraces and villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick, a scheme that marked Plymouth as a leader in town planning at the time.
The houses are constructed of stucco with an asbestos slate mansard roof, featuring four attic windows and a moulded parapet cornice. Stuccoed stacks with moulded cornices are at each end. The design is double-depth, meaning the interior layout extends through two layers of rooms.
The exterior presents a symmetrical four-window facade. The ground floor features a tetrastyle Tuscan porch with a moulded entablature topped by a latticed balustrade, which is repeated over the flanking tripartite windows linked by a cornice string. Eared architraves with moulded cornices sit above the first-floor windows, while the second floor has a sill string with round brackets and eared architraves. Segmental-arched doorways have panelled doors. The original window openings now contain 20th-century windows. The interior of the houses has not been inspected.
Attached forecourt walls and railings are also part of the listing.
Local climate
Numbers 3 and 4 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 — 11 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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