Description

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SX4854SW
740-1/62/101
01/05/75

PLYMOUTH
VAUXHALL STREET, Barbican
(South East side)
No.94

(Formerly Listed as: VAUXHALL STREET, Plymouth No.94)
(Formerly Listed as: VAUXHALL QUAY, Plymouth Warehouse adjoining Breton House)

GV
II

Includes: Warehouse facing Vauxhall Quay VAUXHALL QUAY
Barbican.
Warehouse on wharf with integral account house. Early C19.
MATERIALS: painted brick front to house, otherwise Plymouth
limestone rubble with segmental brick arches over the
openings; dry slate roof with very deep front eaves to house
with central gabled roof dormer and rubble stack on the right;
corrugated asbestos roof at right angles behind right-hand
side and returned to taller roof parallel at rear with hip on
the corner.
PLAN: deep plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic to symmetrical 3-window house
front and 4 storeys to warehouse. 12-pane horned sash copies,
blind central windows above round-arched rusticated and
textured Coade stone doorway with carved head keyblock;
vertical glazing bars to fanlight and C20 door. Right-hand
return warehouse front is 2:2:1:1 bays: 2 bays of the house
end on the left with left-hand openings and attic window on
right blocked or blind, sashes similar to those of house front
below and doorway to ground floor below windows. Next 2 bays
and right-hand bay are similar with windows with glass blocks
to upper floors except top left which is blocked and there are
3 ground-floor doorways with ledged doors and blocked
round-arched ventilators above. The other bay has 3 loading
doorways with pairs of ledged doors and there is a steel hoist
beam at the top.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be as unaltered as the
exterior.
The combination of the account house and a warehouse make this
a rare survival of an unusual building type.

Listing NGR: SX4828754293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666189

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5