Description

PLYMOUTH

SX5052SW BELLE VUE ROAD
740-1/85/592 (North West side)
29/03/60 Plymstock, Hooe (Higher)
Hooe Manor

GV II*

Country house, now divided into flats. 1777 for Christopher
Harris. Caen stone ashlar with plinth, mid-floor bands and
rusticated quoins; dry slate hipped roof with central valley
and with a moulded and modillion cornice; large ashlar stacks:
4 axial stacks and tall end stacks to wings.
PLAN: square double-depth plan plus flanking wings which
project to rear forming an overall U shape.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus 2-storey wings; symmetrical 5-window
front. Flat arches over original hornless sashes with glazing
bars, windows of upper floor much shorter. Central distyle
Roman Doric porch with triglyphs and triangular pediment;
glazed and panelled door. Rear is slightly asymmetrical having
a tall 1st-floor stair window and window above, left of centre
and segmental-arched pilastered porch right of centre.
INTERIOR: virtually complete where inspected except for
alterations of following its conversion. Fine stair hall with
open-well staircase with open string, ramped handrail over
turned balusters, column newels and panelled dado; Adam style
ceiling plaster above, otherwise cornices with fluted friezes
and Adam style chimneypieces surrounded by engraved tiles made
in Liverpool in the 1770s.
A very distinguished mid C18 house, the flanking blocks almost
lending it a Palladian air.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
682).

Listing NGR: SX5016352207

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554309

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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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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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)