Hooe Manor

Heritage listing

Details PLYMOUTH SX5052SW BELLE VUE ROAD 740-1/85/592 (North West side) 29/03/60 Plymstock, Hooe (Higher) Hooe Manor GV II* Country house, now divided into flats. 1777 for Christopher Harris. Caen stone ashlar with plinth, mid-floor bands and rusticated quoins; dry slate hipped roof with central valley and with a moulded and modillion cornice; large ashlar stacks: 4 axial stacks and tall end stacks to wings. PLAN: square double-depth plan plus flanking wings which project to rear forming an overall U shape. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus 2-storey wings; symmetrical 5-window front. Flat arches over original hornless sashes with glazing bars, windows of upper floor much shorter. Central distyle Roman Doric porch with triglyphs and triangular pediment; glazed and panelled door. Rear is slightly asymmetrical having a tall 1st-floor stair window and window above, left of centre and segmental-arched pilastered porch right of centre. INTERIOR: virtually complete where inspected except for alterations of following its conversion. Fine stair hall with open-well staircase with open string, ramped handrail over turned balusters, column newels and panelled dado; Adam style ceiling plaster above, otherwise cornices with fluted friezes and Adam style chimneypieces surrounded by engraved tiles made in Liverpool in the 1770s. A very distinguished mid C18 house, the flanking blocks almost lending it a Palladian air. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 682). Listing NGR: SX5016352207 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 473192 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.