Shakespeare, Plymouth

Grade-II listed 9/11/98, exterior listed, interior may be of interest. List Entry No 138 6473, Legacy System No 473860. Public house. c1870-80. Stucco; slate or asbestos slate hipped roof behind heavily-moulded parapet entablature; stuccoed lateral stack with moulded cornice near centre of front. Shallow double-depth plan with entrance to splayed corner. 3 storeys; 2:1:4-window 1st-floor range including left-hand return. Late C19 4-pane horned sashes; channelled rustication and segmental arches to ground floor (right) string above; moulded 1st-floor architraves with tall keys rising to moulded hoods; simpler 2nd-floor architraves with rounded upper corners and sill brackets. Corner shopfront has full-width moulded entablature over 1:1:2:1 bays divided by pilasters; there are doorways with overlights and panelled doors to 2nd from left and to right-hand bays; the shop windows are transomed and have margin lights over panelled stall risers. INTERIOR: not inspected but may be as unaltered as the exterior. Part of a good group of buildings in the centre of Devonport.