27, New Street

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW NEW STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/35 (South side (off)) No.27

GV II

Group of warehouses built around a courtyard. Late C18 and early C19. Plymouth limestone rubble walls with segmental brick arches over most of the openings; half-hipped and gable-ended mostly slate roofs. Warehouses on 4 sides of a courtyard approached by a carriageway ope (passage) through the front warehouse. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; courtyard elevation of front warehouse is a 2-window range plus former loading doorways on the right. Courtyard front of warehouse on the left of the courtyard has similar front but with loading doorways towards the left. Front of rear warehouse is partly clad in weatherboard. Front of warehouse on right of courtyard has 3 large round-arched openings to ground floor; blind wall above. INTERIOR: of front warehouse has original beam and joist floor structures and likely to retain original roof structure not inspected. Other warehouse not inspected but likely to retain their original structural features. New Street contains a high proportion of fine C17 and C18 houses and some fine warehouses. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 662).

Listing NGR: SX4826554032