Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4856SE WESTERN COLLEGE ROAD, Mannamead
740-1/38/338 (North side)
10/12/97 Nos.5-17 (Odd)
Former Western College (original block)

II

Congregational theological college. 1861. By J Hine. Plymouth
limestone rubble brought to course and Bath stone dressings;
steep dry slate roofs, spire to taller entrance porch and
steep pyramidal roofs to lower wings set back at left and
right; coped over the party walls; large gabled roof dormers
with canted bay windows. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: large irregular double-depth plan with central principal
entrance block.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 1:4:1:4:1-window range front
plus wing set back at either end. Paired pointed-arched lights
under pointed arch with blind plate tracery to ground floor; 2
small gabled porches: left of centre (with buttress behind)
and towards left, both with triple-arched door heads and
cusped overlights; 2 doorways towards right with similar heads
contrived out of the right-hand lights of 2 of the windows,
all with planked doors; carved impost string and carved
capitals to mullion shafts. 1st floor with sill string, paired
square-headed lights and carved capitals to taller mullion
shafts, bay left of main porch taller and 3-light window with
pointed lights under a rose window within a gable. Entrance
tower has canted front with 2-light windows with cusped heads
under star tracery, each window over a pointed-arched doorway.
Ground-floor windows with glazing bars; 1st-floor windows with
pointed heads over transoms.
INTERIOR: large entrance hall has canted glazed and panelled
entrance screen with pointed arches and fielded panels; 3
pointed arches to rear, the central arch a niche containing 3
arches; moulded plaster ceiling cornice. Otherwise not
inspected.
Imaginative use of the Gothic style.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
658).

Listing NGR: SX4854856117

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666194

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