Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4755 PORTLAND VILLAS, Plymouth
740-1/42/404 (North side)
01/05/75 Nos.20 AND 21
including attached garden walls &
gate-piers at the front

GV II

Unequal pair of villas in planned group of villas. Mid-late
C19. Stucco with stucco detail; steep asbestos slate roofs
behind parapets with moulded entablature and with 2 coped
front gables to cross wings, right of centre and on the right;
stuccoed lateral stacks surmounted by diagonally-set shafts.
Simple Tudor Gothic style. Overall L-shaped irregular
double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (No.20, left) and 2 storeys over basement;
articulated 5-bay front with 1 window to 1st floor of each bay
and to 2nd floor of No.20 (2 bays). No.20 has
slightly-projecting bay on the left with pilastered canted bay
window with moulded entablature to ground floor; narrow
entrance bay with 4-centred arched doorway of 2 orders and
panelled door, and projecting cross wing on the right, flush
with the front of No.21 and with window to each floor of its
left-hand return. Late C19 or C20 horned sashes without
glazing bars to left-hand bays of No.20; possibly original
2-light transomed mullioned windows with 4-centred arched top
lights to right-hand bay of No.20 and to right-hand bay of
No.21. The narrow entrance bay of No.21 has parapet over
single-light 1st-floor window and 4-centred arched doorway
with panelled and partly-glazed door set back. All the
openings have square hoodmoulds and there is a string above
the 1st-floor windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubble side garden walls linked to low
front wall with square gate-piers with squat pyramidal caps.
Part of a good group of mid C19 villas.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
669).

Listing NGR: SX4789155150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666054

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy