3, Windsor Villas

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 LOCKYER STREET, Hoe 740-1/57/283 (East side) 25/01/54 Windsor Villas No.3 (Formerly Listed as: LOCKYER STREET, Plymouth Windsor Villas Nos 1-6 (consec))

GV II

Villa in planned group of villas, now used as an hotel. c1820s-30s. Incised stucco; dry slate mansard roof behind parapet with moulded entablature and balustraded centre break; panelled end stacks with moulded cornices; attic windows with incised pilasters and heads. Double-depth plan with probably 3 rooms at the front and entrance porch to axial entrance hall from the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 3-bay front with centre bay broken forward plus single-storey porch set back on the left. Late C19 or C20 horned sashes, original hornless sashes, with glazing bars to 1st floor; central bay with tripartite sashes with consoles and moulded hoods; ground-floor sashes taller. Porch has parapet with moulded cornice and front doorway with consoles and moulded hood; 4-panel door. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. Included as part of an important planned group of terraces and villas by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick on the Hoe, a scheme which placed Plymouth in the forefront of town planning in the early/mid C19. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 664).

Listing NGR: SX4766454166