The Pent House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. A C17 House.
The Pent House
- WRENN ID
- tired-pedestal-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PLYMOUTH
SX5455NW FORE STREET, Plympton St Maurice 740-1/49/476 (North side) 23/04/52 No.20 The Pent House
GV II
Pair of small merchants' houses or tenements of cottages, now 1 house. Probably C17. Rubble walls except for deep-projecting 1st floor which is render on probable timber frame; dry slate roof; brick end stacks. Originally a U-shaped plan with near central through passage giving access to narrow courtyard between deep rear wings. 2 storeys; 3-window range. C20 leaded casements to 1st floor which is carried on a timber bressumer over a colonnade of 5 unevenly spaced square rubble columns or piers. The ground-floor front set back to rear of pavement has 4 window openings of varied sizes with C20 windows and there is a doorway left of centre with a C20 door. INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes crude C17 1st-floor fireplace with chamfered jambs and corbels to a slate lintel. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 684).
Listing NGR: SX5430655799
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