Minerva Inn, Plymouth

Grade-II listed 25/1/54, interior and exterior listed. List Entry No 138 6206, Legacy System No 473590. 2 merchants' houses, now public house. Late C16 or early C17. Stucco on timber-framed jettied front; steep dry slate roofs, the left-hand roof half-hipped and the other roof (No.32) with front gable projecting and carried on moulded brackets and with central turned pendant; rendered stacks: one on the left and lateral stack to rear right. Deep U-shaped plan including rear wings with fronts end on to the street. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with upper floor partly in roof space and 1st and 2nd floors jettied; each front a 1-window range: No.31 with C20 horned sashes, 1st and 3rd floor sashes with glazing bars; No.32 with 2-light casements with glazing bars to 1st and 2nd floors off-centre to right and 3-light casement to centre of gable. Ground floor has early C19 shopfront with fascia and narrow pilasters; No.32 has fascia over shop window with group of 3 late C19 horned sashes. INTERIOR: described in former list description as having pole staircase in each; No.31 with small section of C16/C17 panelling on the stairs and said to contain part of a late C16 plaster ceiling. Part of a significant group of C17 and C18 houses. No.31 listed on 01/05/75. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 664).