Plympton St Maurice House and Former St Maurice Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. House and cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Plympton St Maurice House and Former St Maurice Cottage
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1952
- Type
- House and cottage
- Address
- Plympton St Maurice House and Former St Maurice Cottage, 101, Fore Street, City of Plymouth, PL7 1ND
- OS grid reference
- SX 542 556
- Coordinates
- 50.38304, -4.05075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plympton St Maurice House and the former St Maurice Cottage are a house and attached service cottage dating from the 18th century. The building is finished in stucco with some stucco detailing and features a steep dry slate hipped roof behind a parapet with a plain entablature. The structure has an irregular arrangement of brick stacks and a double-depth plan that likely includes three rooms at the entrance front, with an entrance hall located to the right of the center.
The exterior consists of two storeys above a basement, with a 1:2:1-bay entrance front that has projecting central bays. The windows are probably early 19th century hornless sashes with thin glazing bars, including a sash to the left of the doorway. The doorway is set within recessed round-arched architraves and features a traceried fanlight above a six-panel door with fielded panels. The south garden front rises to three storeys and includes two bowed bays. The service cottage on the right is a one-window range with windows that have glazing bars and a wide doorway on the right topped with a moulded hood over a four-panel door.
The interior has not been inspected recently, but a previous description notes an original staircase with turned balusters, slender newels, and a plain dado with flat pilasters. There are plain marble fireplaces, and one ceiling features an egg-and-dart cornice. The former St Maurice Cottage was listed separately on May 1, 1975.
Local climate
Plympton St Maurice House and Former St Maurice Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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