Description

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SX4554
740-1/54/145

PLYMOUTH
Devonport
GEORGE STREET (North side)
No.8

(formerly listed as No.2 Old Chapel Public House, DUKE STREET, previously listed as: GEORGE STREET, Devonport No.8 The Old Chapel Public House)

25/01/54

GV

II
Former nonconformist (Unitarian chapel). 1790; converted to public house in 1801. Stone rubble with brick dressings but probably originally stuccoed; bitumen-grouted slate roofs with slightly-projecting eaves and moulded wooden pediment to front end of main roof and to porch roof. Rectangular aisle-less plan, presumably originally with galleries; small C20 flat-roofed single-storey extension to part of left-hand return.

Two-storey elevations: three windows to left-hand side and two windows to entrance front. Round first-floor windows with glazing bars and pivot-opening centres. There is a blind oval formerly dated 1801 to the main pediment and a spoked glazed lunette to the porch pediment with a 1790 date plaque under; blocked ground-floor windows: two flanking wide central doorway of porch and one visible to left-hand return; C20 panelled doors.

INTERIOR: remodelled C20.

Listing NGR: SX4551054466

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26605667

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)