Beresford Arms, Plymouth

Grade-II listed 1/5/75, exterior listed. List Entry No 113 0054, Legacy System No 473308. PLYMOUTH Devonport CUMBERLAND STREET (South side) Nos.8-14 (consecutive) including Beresford Arms Public House (No.9)

(Formerly listed as Nos.8-14 (Consecutive) The Lord Beresford Public House (No.9))

01/05/75 GV II Planned terrace of seven houses with later shops and a public house. c1830. Stucco with probable slate or asbestos slate roofs mostly hidden behind stuccoed parapets with moulded entablature; old attic dormers except for large C20 loft window to No.13 (sixth from left) rendered brick end stacks. Double-depth plan.

EXTERIOR: three storeys plus attics; overall regular fourteen-window range. Original hornless sashes with glazing bars except to Nos.11 and 13 and to second floor of No.10. Nos.8-10 have their original rusticated end pilasters and these survive to ground floor between the shops. Nos. 9-14 have their original panelled window pilasters, some of these to first floor rise through the moulded hoods, and sill brackets. Except for Nos. 9 and 10 there is a possibly original moulded cornice above the fascia of the shops. No.9 has good late C19 double shopfront with round-arched lights. The others with old shopfronts have had varying degrees of alteration. No.12 has had a late C19 shopfront removed and a smaller window opening inserted. No.11 has a crude C20 shopfront; those of Nos.10 and 14 are also C20. INTERIORS not inspected.