37 And 38, New Street

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW NEW STREET, Barbican 740-1/62/42 (South side) 25/01/54 Nos.37 AND 38 (Formerly Listed as: NEW STREET, Plymouth Nos.37 AND 38)

GV II

2 merchant's houses. C17, front remodelled later. Stuccoed front with moulded cornices to slight jetties; steep dry slate roof behind parapet; 2 dormer windows; rendered end stack on left; 2 large rubble lateral stacks over original rear wall and large rubble end stack off-centre to rear right-hand wing. PLAN: single-depth plan plus 2 rear gabled stair towers and 2 narrow wings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic; 2:1-window range with C20 horned sashes with glazing bars. No.37 (left) has original 3-light ovolo-moulded window with 2 surviving mullions and a partly-glazed door to either side. INTERIOR: contains 2 original pole staircases. No.37 has C17 moulded beam to cellar, an ovolo-moulded doorframe to front 1st-floor room, a corner cupboard with doors missing, an old planked door and 2 x C19 iron grates. No.38 has a C17 ovolo-moulded doorframe, some C18 ceiling joists, rough-hewn beam in cobbled basement, a good C18 glazed corner cupboard with elliptical arch and a C19 chimneypiece with consoles. Roof structure not inspected but likely to be of interest. New Street contains a high proportion of fine C17 and C18 houses. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 662).

Listing NGR: SX4821254073