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80, Compton Avenue

A Grade II Listed Building in Compton, City of Plymouth

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.387 / 50°23'13"N

Longitude: -4.1217 / 4°7'18"W

OS Eastings: 249262

OS Northings: 56278

OS Grid: SX492562

Mapcode National: GBR RFP.RF

Mapcode Global: FRA 2880.S1F

Plus Code: 9C2Q9VPH+R8

Entry Name: 80, Compton Avenue

Listing Date: 9 November 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1130045

English Heritage Legacy ID: 473282

ID on this website: 101130045

Location: Lower Compton, Plymouth, Devon, PL3

County: City of Plymouth

Electoral Ward/Division: Compton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Plymouth

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

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Description


PLYMOUTH

SX4856SE COMPTON AVENUE, Mannamead 740-1/38/325 (South side) No.80

GV II

Former vicarage of Emmanuel Church, Mannamead Road (qv). 1906 (Pevsner). Roughcast render; steep red tile roofs with projecting eaves with exposed rafters and projecting verges with exposed purlins and jettied over canted oriels [front and rear]; mostly outbuilt end stacks with most of the original pots. L-shaped plan, the front with pair of cross wings plus lower service wing at right angles to rear left. Arts and Crafts design. 2 storeys plus attics; 3-window-range front. Wide wooden mullioned windows with leaded glass; central flat-roofed porch on scrolled brackets, buttressed doorway with planked door and small window right of door, and canted bay window right of porch. INTERIOR: has large entrance/stair hall with large open-well staircase with open string, panelled newels, moulded handrails and splat balustrades; newel posts continued up to support moulded beams of coffered and corbelled ceiling; eared chimneypiece to right-hand room, otherwise not inspected. A very good example of a restrained design after the style of architects such as Voysey and Parker. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 670).



Listing NGR: SX4926256278

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