Seymour Nursing Home

PLYMOUTH

SX4856SE SEYMOUR ROAD, Mannamead 740-1/38/332 (North side) Seymour Nursing Home

GV II

Large villa, now a nursing home. Mid C19. Stucco with stucco detail; asbestos slate hipped roof over moulded and bracketed cornice; stuccoed end and axial stacks with moulded cornices and old clay pots. Fairly deep plan with probably 2 rooms at the front flanking an entrance hall leading to stair hall. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys to front with tall 1st floor, otherwise 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay front with rusticated quoins, central entrance bay broken forward. Original hornless sashes with glazing bars, round-arched heads to 1st floor, all within pilastered openings with consoles and moulded hoods; right-hand windows blind. Pedimented porch with rusticated sides with alternate vermiculated rustication. Symmetrical 3-bay garden and road front to return right of entrance front with narrower recessed central bay; canted bays to ground-floor left and right, tripartite windows above; pilastered openings with moulded hoods on consoles; 1st floor with sill brackets and segmental arches, all original hornless sashes with horizontal glazing bars. Other elevations with many original features. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. One of a good group of villas in Mannamead which was developed after 1851. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 669).

Listing NGR: SX4874756228