Description

PLYMOUTH

SX5052SW BELLE VUE ROAD
740-1/85/595 (North West side)
29/03/60 Plymstock, Hooe (Higher)
The Retreat

GV II*

Detached house. Late C18. Render or stucco on probable rubble;
dry slate hipped roof with modillion cornice at the front,
returned slightly at either end; large brick axial stacks.
Square double-depth plan plus single-storey wing on the left.
3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Plinth, mid-floor
strings, rusticated quoins and hoodmoulds with central shell
motifs over the ground and 1st-floor windows. Original paired
hornless sashes with glazing bars. Central doorway with fluted
Ionic columns and dentilled pediment; original panelled door.
INTERIOR: good original internal features include: staircase
with turned balusters and column newels; round-arched doorways
with panelled doors; panelled window shutters; moulded ceiling
cornices; chimneypieces, one with original grate; segmental
arch to end of 1 front room and rear room with entablature
carried on paired Tuscan columns (information from former list
description).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
682).

Listing NGR: SX5023452233

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554314

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings