Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW THE PARADE, Barbican
740-1/62/92 (South side)
25/01/54 No.18
Old Custom House
(Formerly Listed as:
PARADE, Plymouth
No.18
(Old Custom House))

GV II*

Merchant's house, later used as customs house, now a shop.
1586 and inscription "A 1623 K" over right-hand doorway.
Coursed Plymouth limestone rubble with granite dressings;
steep dry slate roof laid to diminishing courses, the
right-hand end coped, marking position of former roof level;
large rubble end stacks with drip courses. Deep plan built
around a courtyard.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with very tall upper storey; 4-window
range with much evidence of old alterations to some openings.
1st floor has 4 2-light chamfered mullioned windows under a
string course and relieving arches. Ground floor has wide
doorway on the left and narrow doorway with relieving arch on
the right, both these original doorways moulded and with
4-centred arches, square hoodmoulds and carved spandrels, the
doorway on the left is probably resited, perhaps originally
belonging to a courtyard wall. Between these doorways is a
widened opening with a C20 shop window and above the centre of
this is a relieving arch of similar size to those on the 1st
floor. It is possible that the window to 1st-floor left, that
must be reinstated, having at some time been converted to a
loading doorway, is a reused window from the ground-floor
centre.
INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes a
modern interior.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
663).

Listing NGR: SX4814654174

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554594

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)