Description

PLYMOUTH

SX5455NW FORE STREET, Plympton St Maurice
740-1/49/486 (North side)
23/04/52 No.42
The Guildhall

GV II*

Guildhall. 1696 datestone, for George Treby (and the Strode
family).
MATERIALS: roughly coursed rubble with dressed granite
rusticated quoins, dressed granite arcade and granite ashlar
arcade abutments and 1st-floor sill course and string; steep
dry slate roof with sprocketed eaves over moulded and
modillion cornice; steep asbestos slate roof to rear wing;
brick stack over rear wall of front range.
PLAN: shallow-depth front range with 2 shallow ground floor
rooms flanking a central passage and the 1st-floor rooms
deeper by projecting forward over a 3-bay arcade, plus deep
rear wing at right angles and there is a single-storey
extension on the right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay front. C20 16-pane
horned sashes to 1st floor with carved heraldic panels
between; round-arched mid-late C19 horned sashes and central
round-arched doorway with fanlight and 9-panel door set back
within arcade. Moulded round-arched arcade on Tuscan columns;
carved 2-tier keystone to central arch; rubble relieving
arches, those to left and right with plain keystones. Round
rubble arches to returns allowing pavement access, the
pavement with slate flags; sashes like the other 1st-floor
sashes to 1st-floor returns; stair outshut to right-hand
return of wing with early C19 12-pane hornless sash.
Right-hand return has late C19 2-light round-arched windows
with traceried heads. Rear has pointed-arched window with
fanlight head.
INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes:
good C18 fireplace. The mayoral insignia are preserved and
include 2 silver gilt maces.
HISTORY: the Guildhall was given by the Trubys and the
Strodes, 2 important families of the neighbourhood.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
684).

Listing NGR: SX5439255705

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Guildhall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17554258

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey